Building from source on Windows

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On Sunday, 30 January 2022 at 10:03:28 UTC, frame wrote:
>
> If you ignore this and mix up 32 and 64bit / MS-COFF you have 
> not to wonder why something will not work as expected.

yeah, I knew what, but since -m doesn't work, you gotta remove it.

The tools built ok, and all 64bit.

(except for the dman.exe tool, which I've never heard of and have 
no idea what it does, and it's isn't in the D distribution anyway.

What I can say, after a lot of mucking around, and a little help, 
is that building from source on Windows is as easy as it is on 
linux.

just git and make. that's it.

providing all the prerequistes programs/settings are in place of 
course ;-)

- an exisiting installation of windows
- an exisiting installation of visual studio build tools
- an exisiting installation of dmd
- an exisiting installation of dmc (which has the 'make' that 
you'll need)
- set the correct settings for VCDIR, SDKDIR, and BINDIR in the 
win64.mak files for druntime and phobos (didn't need it for dmd 
or the tools) to match your version of VS.

then run 'make -f win64.mak' in each of the folders for dmd, 
druntime, phobos, tools... and you're done.

That's really all there is too it.