Can't run 'masm386'

[Andre Tampubolon]

minit.obj is still there.

I commented this part:
src\rt\minit.obj : src\rt\minit.asm
	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) src\rt\minit.asm

That works.

On 5/17/2012 11:35 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andre Tampubolon" <andre at lc.vlsm.org> wrote in message 
> news:jp1kld$15mj$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
>> dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
>> src\core\sys\windows\windows.d
>>
>> dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj
>>
>> dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c
>>
>> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
>> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>>
>> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
>> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
>>
>> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
>> Error: 'dmc' not found
>>
>> Strange. This thing never happened before.
> 
> I've hit that before. Druntime comes with minit.obj already compiled. 
> Apperently, minit.asm isn't expected to change, so it's not expected that 
> minit.obj will need to be rebuilt. At least that's what I was told.
> 
> So what must have happened is the same as what happened to me: The timestamp 
> on minit.asm was updated (or the file was inadvertantly changed). Or maybe 
> minit.obj accidentally got deleted. Either way, make thinks minit needs to 
> be rebuilt (which is not normally expected of minit), so it tries to, and it 
> can't find masm386 (which doesn't come with DMD or DMC), so the error.
> 
> So just:
> 
> 1. Check that minit.obj still exists, and if not, grab it again.
> 
> 2. Make sure the timestamp on minit.asm isn't newer than minit.obj
> 
> 3. Make sure minit.asm didn't get changed.
> 
>