Are there any working instructions about how to build and test dmd on Windows?

[rumbu]

On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 00:43:52 UTC, Rubn wrote:
> Yah it's not fun.
>
> Some notes:
>
> You might need to set MSVC_CC environment variable cause it 
> doesn't use the right format for VS path, depending on your 
> version.
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/v2.079.0/src/vcbuild/msvc-dmc.d#L19
>
>
> You could open a command prompt with the batch file running 
> which will add variables used by the script.
>
> C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 
> 14.0/VC/vcvarsall.bat
>
>
> You should be able to build it now with just:
>
> make -f win64.mak reldmd

Thanks, but now I'm stuck on this:

[...]

vcbuild\msvc-dmc -cpp 
-o..\generated\windows\release\64\optabgen.exe 
dmd\backend\optabgen -DMARS -DDM_TARGET_CPU_X86=1 -Idmd\tk
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
14.0\VC\bin\amd64\cl.exe" /nologo /Ivcbuild /Idmd\root 
/FIwarnings.h ^"/D_HAS_EXCEPTIONS=0^" ^"/Wv:18^" /TP 
/Fe..\generated\windows\release\64\optabgen.exe 
dmd\backend\optabgen.c -DMARS ^"-DDM_TARGET_CPU_X86=1^" /Idmd\tk
optabgen.c
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
__report_rangecheckfailure referenced in function "void __cdecl 
dotytab(void)" (?dotytab@@YAXXZ)
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
__acrt_iob_func referenced in function printf
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol fclose 
referenced in function "void __cdecl dotab(void)" (?dotab@@YAXXZ)
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol fopen 
referenced in function "void __cdecl dotab(void)" (?dotab@@YAXXZ)
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
__stdio_common_vfprintf referenced in function _vfprintf_l
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol exit 
referenced in function "void __cdecl dotab(void)" (?dotab@@YAXXZ)
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _wassert 
referenced in function "void __cdecl doreltables(struct _iobuf 
*)" (?doreltables@@YAXPEAU_iobuf@@@Z)
optabgen.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
__GSHandlerCheck
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
__security_check_cookie referenced in function "void __cdecl 
doreltables(struct _iobuf *)" (?doreltables@@YAXPEAU_iobuf@@@Z)
optabgen.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
__security_cookie referenced in function "void __cdecl 
doreltables(struct _iobuf *)" (?doreltables@@YAXPEAU_iobuf@@@Z)
LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol mainCRTStartup
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
14.0\VC\LIB\libcpmt.lib : warning LNK4272: library machine type 
'X86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64'
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
14.0\VC\LIB\LIBCMT.lib : warning LNK4272: library machine type 
'X86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64'
..\generated\windows\release\64\optabgen.exe : fatal error 
LNK1120: 11 unresolved externals