Have Win DMD use gmake instead of a separate DMMake makefile?

[Sean Kelly]

On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Mike Parker <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Things can be wonky from a vanilla windows command prompt, which is why I never use any Linux tools there. MSYS makes all those problems go away. I use git exclusively on windows, but via gitbash, which is built on top of MSYS.
> 
> Of course, it would be silly to require MSYS or Cygwin to build on Windows, but there's always CMake. A number of open source projects use it these days. Ship a configuration file with the source, then the user can generate Makefiles for a number of compilers and platforms.

I haven't used it recently, but GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) provides good ports of *nix apps without the need for MSYS or Cygwin.