What I do to easily switch between different DMD versions and libraries on Windows

[Max Samukha]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:30 +0200, "Anders Bergh" <anders1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Since there are now two D versions, I figured some of you might be
>interested in the trick I use on Windows to switch between compilers
>easily.
>
>I have DMD 1.016 (Phobos), DMD 1.014 (Tango) and DMD 2.000. Switching
>between versions is only two clicks away.
>
>
>
>Things you will need:
>
>1. Windows 2000 or above.
>
>2. NTFS file system.
>
>3. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx
>This tool lets you create directory symlinks (NTFS junctions).
>
>1. Extract "junction.exe" into your PATH, I simply extracted it into C:\Windows.
>
>2. Extract dmd 1.x into c:\dmd1_phobos.
>
>3. Extract dmd 2.x into c:\dmd2_phobos.
>
>4. Open notepad, copy/paste this into a new file, "dmd1_phobos.bat":
>
>@echo off
>rem Deletes the current symlink and replaces it with a new one.
>junction -d c:\dmd
>junction c:\dmd c:\dmd1_phobos
>
>5. Do the same for your other DMD installations, just replace
>"c:\dmd1_phobos" with "c:\dmd2_phobos", etc.
>
>
>To change between DMD versions, simply double click the corresponding
>batch file. The location of the batch files does not matter.
>
>I hope this helps someone out there, it sure did make things easier
>for me when playing around with Tango and 2.0 :-)

Very useful info. Thanks!