Building from source on Windows

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On Saturday, 29 January 2022 at 12:50:40 UTC, MoonlightSentinel 
wrote:
>
> You apparently built dmd with unittests enabled. D applications 
> build with `-unittest` do snot execute the actual main unless 
> explicitly requested via a Druntime option. So the targets of 
> the make rule are never built, causing the cascading error 
> later on for `copydir`.
>
> Not sure how you build that dmd since `make` / `build.d` 
> explicitly use a different name for the unittest executable.

so I just did this:

c:\source\D\dmd>make -f win64.mak
(output from above command is below - and yes, it seems something 
is defaulting to "ENABLE_UNITTEST=1)

(this is the output below, from the command above)
cd src
make -f win64.mak
dmd -g -ofvcbuild\msvc-lib.exe vcbuild\msvc-lib.d

if not exist "..\generated\windows\release\64" mkdir 
..\generated\windows\release\64
make -f win32.mak "OS=windows" "BUILD=release" "MODEL=64" 
"HOST_DMD=" "HOST_DC=dmd" "MAKE=make" "VERBOSE=" 
"ENABLE_RELEASE=" "ENABLE_DEBUG=" "ENABLE_ASSERTS=" 
"ENABLE_UNITTEST=" "ENABLE_PROFILE=" "ENABLE_COVERAGE=" "DFLAGS=" 
"GEN=..\generated" "G=..\generated\windows\release\64" 
"LIB=vcbuild\msvc-lib" defaulttarget
if not exist "..\generated\windows\release\64" mkdir 
..\generated\windows\release\64

make -fwin32.mak MAKE="make" HOST_DC="dmd" MODEL=64 CC="" 
VERBOSE= "ENABLE_DEBUG=1" "ENABLE_UNITTEST=1" 
..\generated\windows\release\64\dmd.exe
echo "===== DEPRECATION NOTICE ====="
"===== DEPRECATION NOTICE ====="
echo "===== DEPRECATION: win32.mak is deprecated. Please use 
src\build.d instead."
"===== DEPRECATION: win32.mak is deprecated. Please use 
src\build.d instead."
echo "=============================="
"=============================="
dmd -m64 -of..\generated\build.exe -g build.d

..\generated\build.exe --called-from-make "OS=windows" 
"BUILD=release" "MODEL=64" "HOST_DMD=" "HOST_DC=dmd" "MAKE=make" 
"VERBOSE=" "ENABLE_RELEASE=" "ENABLE_DEBUG=1" "ENABLE_ASSERTS=" 
"ENABLE_UNITTEST=1" "ENABLE_PROFILE=" "ENABLE_COVERAGE=" 
"DFLAGS=" ..\generated\windows\release\64\dmd.exe
(TX) VERSION
(TX) SYSCONFDIR
(DC) COMMON
(DC) LEXER
(DC) BACKEND
(DC) DMD
Success

copy ..\generated\windows\release\64\dmd.exe .
         1 file(s) copied.