[dmd-internals] Has anyone other than Brad succeeded in building the d_do_test tool on Windows?

[Brad Roberts]

On 3/5/2011 12:52 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
> I never have. Typical results:
> 
> $ gnumake -I c:/sandbox/druntime/import
> Building d_do_test tool
> object.d: Error: module object is in file 'object.d' which cannot be read
> Specify path to file 'object.d' with -I switch
> gnumake: *** [test_results/d_do_test] Error 1
> 
>  On my system, the command to compile foo.d with dmd, is "dmd foo.d".
> It really takes creativity to get a failure like the one above.
> Why on earth does the makefile have hard coded paths all through it?
> It seems to assume a hardcoded relationship between all of the source
> directories.
> Any use of ".." is suspect.
> This is the ONE AND ONLY D program that I have never been able to compile.
> I suspect Walter has never been able to get it to work, either.
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I don't understand your objection to having the test dir assume that the built dmd is in ../src/dmd, as, well, that's
exactly where the produced binary from the build process lives.

I suspect the primary issue is that I always have either an sc.ini or dmd.conf file in .../dmd/src/ that 'just works'.
$ more src/sc.ini
[Version]
version=7.51 Build 020

[Environment]
LIB="%@P%\..\..\phobos";c:\home\braddr\sandbox\d\dmc\dm\lib
DFLAGS="-I%@P%\..\..\phobos" "-I%@P%\..\..\druntime\import"
LINKCMD=c:\cygwin\home\braddr\sandbox\d\dmc\dm\bin\link.exe

Obviously the two dmc related paths are specific to my system, but having ..'s in paths for dmd setups is par for the
course.. always has been.

For more on how I use dmd on windows, you can look at the auto-tester scripts:

  https://github.com/braddr/d-tester/client/src

Also, -I as an arg to make doesn't get passed to any sub apps, specifically not dmd.  It only tells make where to look
for included make files.. which isn't used by any of our make files, definitely not the dmd/test/Makefile.

I hope that helps.

Later,
Brad