Building from source on Windows

12345swordy alexanderheistermann at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 02:28:14 UTC 2022


On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 21:39:39 UTC, forkit wrote:
> No matter what instructions, blogs, articles... I use.. I 
> simply cannot manage to build druntime,dmd,phobos, from source 
> on Windows.
>
> Of course, building from source in linux is a breeze.
>
> But I cannot test my changes on Windows, cause I cannot build 
> from source on Windows!
>
> Does anyone have a step-by-step process, that is 'guaranteed' 
> to work? (with as few unnecessary dependencies as possible 
> please).
>
> I'm happy to build a dedicated build machine for this purpose, 
> with just the software needed to build from source.
>
> NOTE: I said 'guaranteed' to work ;-)  ... I've wasted to much 
> time following instructions that just do not work.

Hi,
I used this for building on windows, it works wonders for me.

https://github.com/rainers/dlangvs

- Alex


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