Digger on Windows -- should it work?

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 20/04/2024 9:28 AM, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'd like to test locally whether a commit 
> (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16400) fixes an issue 
> (https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24440).  The GitHub 
> instructions in the PR tell to use Digger for a quick and easy check, 
> but it fails to build on Windows with the following message:
> 
> <...>
> std.file.FileException at std\file.d(454): 
> <...>\work\repo\dmd\src\win32.mak: The system cannot find the file 
> specified.
> <...>
> 
> And yeah, there is no such file there.  Only osmodel.mak and posix.mak 
> of the relevant kind.
> 
> So, nowadays, is Digger supposed to work on Windows?  It did, the last 
> time I tried, but that was several years ago.
> 
> Ivan Kazmenko.

Yes it should work.

The make files for dmd should be gone.

So I don't know why its referring to them.