Is it possible to build DMD using Windows SDK?

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 4/30/2012 4:25 AM, Andre Tampubolon wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 9:01 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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>> On 4/27/2012 7:30 AM, Andre Tampubolon wrote:
>>> On 4/27/2012 1:30 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>>
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>>>> On 4/26/2012 2:40 PM, Andre Tampubolon wrote:
>>>>> Rainer Schuetze<r.sagitario at gmx.de>    wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/24/2012 6:43 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 13:47:30 UTC, Andre Tampubolon wrote:
>>>>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In case he doesn't read your message here anyway, you might want to
>>>>>>> ping
>>>>>>> Rainer Schuetze directly, as he is the one who worked on VC support.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately some changes to the makefile have been reverted, but I
>>>>>> don't know why. This is the version that should work:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/965d831df554fe14c793ce0d6a1dc9f0b2956911/src/win32.mak
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But that one is still using dmc, right? I tried to use "CC=cl" (of
>>>>> course
>>>>> MS' cl), and got a bunch of errors.
>>>>
>>>> You should still use vcbuild\builddmd.bat which replaces dmc with
>>>> dmc_cl, a batch that replaces dmc's options with the respective cl
>>>> options.
>>>
>>> Well I used vcbuild\builddmd.bat (see my first post), and it failed.
>>
>> You have to use vcbuild\builddmd.bat with the older win32.mak. I
>> actually tried it and it worked for me a few days ago with the compiler
>> that comes with VS2008.
>
> Ah, OK. I guess I messed with the batch files up, and then I tried once
> again. The compilation worked, but then I got these linker errors.
> http://pastebin.com/Ech3RNLV

It seems you are building with the x64-compiler. The win32.mak makefile 
only supports Win32 builds, so please switch your path variable to point 
to the 32-bit compiler.

The VS project supports building an x64 executable of dmd, but it 
involves assembling vcbuild\ldfpu.asm. The resulting dmd still generates 
Win32-code, though.