Why is 64-bit dmd not built as part of the Windows release?

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Tue May 22 13:11:00 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 17 May 2018 at 03:28:33 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 16:01:28 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> I just spent 45min trying to build 64-bit dmd on Windows. It 
>> wasn't fun. "Isn't it just make -f win64.mak?", I hear you 
>> ask. Yes. If you want a version with debug messages turned on. 
>> It took me 45min to learn that disabling those is... 
>> non-trivial.
>
> I realize you all must be sick of me by now, but:
>
> digger build --model=64
>
> If you don't have Digger yet, you can run it straight from Dub:
>
> dub fetch digger
> dub run digger -- build --model=64

I keep forgetting about digger for some reason. Unfortunately the 
command above produced a 32-bit dmd. 64-bit druntime and phobos, 
but 32-bit dmd.

Atila


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