druntime build failing because of masm386 problems

[jollie via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn <digita
lmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> Wrote in message:
> It's been a while since I did anything in Windows with D, and unfortunately,
> I need to again, and now I can't get druntime to build. I'm getting this
> lovely error:
> 
> dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
> masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;
> 
> Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
> Error: 'dmc' not found
> 
> 
> I know that I've seen this before, but I can't remember how to fix the
> problem. dmc is definitely on my PATH (I successfully built dmd prior to
> trying to build druntime), so the error seems to be wrong, for whatever good
> that does me. I don't see a masm386 with dmc, so I don't know where that
> comes from. Maybe that's part of the problem.
> 
> Has anyone seen this problem and figured out how to get around it or fix it?
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> 

It's been some months since I had this problem pop up, but I just
 ran touch on the minit.obj file so make thought it was up to date
 and used it.
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