Windows devs - how are you building dmd, druntime, phobos?

[Jonathan Marler]

On Friday, 26 July 2019 at 12:12:10 UTC, John Burton wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 July 2019 at 13:12:58 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Last week I had a little spare time and thought I'd see if I 
> could
> fix a very minor issue in D that I reported a while back. It 
> turned out
> to be in druntime. I tried for several hours to build my 
> changes in druntime
> and dmd using windows and various sets of instructions and 
> trying to work the
> process out for myself but nothing seemed to work and 
> eventually I gave up.
>
> The experience didn't exactly encourage me to go further with D 
> although I
> understand it's not a priority for anyone to work on (and I 
> still think D and
> it's community are generally great) so I'm not giving up (and 
> would still like
> to know how to successfully build my changes on windows)

I'm working on it. Making some PRs to transition the build to D 
and consolidate the windows and posix builds. Hopefully it will 
be a lot better soon.