Building DMD

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 31 March 2017 at 14:19:59 UTC, Inquie wrote:
> On Friday, 31 March 2017 at 08:20:51 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Yes, I downloaded druntime from github and built it as I did 
> phobos. The 64-bit make files have issues because paths are 
> hard coded and things are not so simple as they used to be, but 
> I was able to, I think, get everything to work.
>
> So, if this is a druntime issue, and if built it "correctly" is 
> there any settings I would have to change to add them or 
> anything like that? Any way to check if those symbols exist in 
> druntime64.lib?
>
> It seems the methods are in
>
> src\core\exception.d
>
> so not sure why they wouldn't be added.
>
>
> But yes, I downloaded everything nearly simultaneously and 
> build them.

Download the source of a release version.
~master is always a little unstable.
picking the ~stable branch for phobos druntime and dmd should end 
up in a working compiler close to the latest release.