rdmd

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> c:\Users\me\Desktop>rdmd --chatty hello.d
> chdir "." && dmd  -v -o- "hello.d" >hello.d.deps
> dmd  -of"C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp;.rdmd\hello.d.ED85692521C0A87990BB1B70BE
> E0046C.exe" -od"C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp;.rdmd\rdmd-hello.d-ED85692521C0A8
> 7990BB1B70BEE0046C" "hello.d"
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.1
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2004  All rights reserved.
> C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp.obj
>  Error 2: File Not Found C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp.obj
> --- errorlevel 1
> 
> =======
> 
> Notice how it is a semicolon. Changing pathsep to just sep on line 207 fixes
> this. (Perhaps the names in std.path should be changed. pathsep and sep are
> a bit too similar. pathsep is the character to separate multiple paths, 
> like in /bin:/usr/bin. sep is the directory separator.)

Damn. Sorry, I could have detected that on my side too.

> Fixing that brings us back to almost the same problem as before.. but it
> is opposite now:
> 
> whatever: file not found
> 
> Coming out of link.exe. The file is created with the .obj extension, but
> now link is looking for the file without it :S

That's odd.

> (I wish Windows would stop bugging me about rebooting for updates. I'll
>  do it when I get around to it! Bah!)
> =====
> 
> Sidetrack:
> 
> That weird exception thrown about the operation completing successfully
> is a bug in Phobos's rmdir() function. The reason, from MSDN RemoveDirectory():
> 
> Return Value
> If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero. If the function fails, the return value is zero.
 >
> Yeah.... silly Microsoft. (Now I understand why this is so common on
> The Daily WTF!)
> 
> Anyway, to fix it, I just stuck a ! before the
> functions in std.file lines 689 and 690. There might be other little
> problems like that. Next weekend or something I'll see about going through
> the Windows calls and making sure they are all correct.

Fixed (not in the coming release though, the toothpaste is out of the 
tube already)... thanks, and thanks in advance for any other bugs you 
might find.

> ===========
> 
> OK, back to the disappearing .obj. I don't understand why it's doing that...
> 
> Let me copy/paste the output again:
> 
> c:\Users\me\Desktop>rdmd -v --chatty hello.d
> chdir "." && dmd -v -v -o- "hello.d" >hello.d.deps
> dmd -v -of"C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\hello.d.ED85692521C0A87990BB1B70
> BEE0046C.exe" -od"C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\rdmd-hello.d-ED85692521C0
> A87990BB1B70BEE0046C" "hello.d"
> *snip*
> c:\dm\bin\link.exe "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\rdmd-hello.d-ED85692521
> C0A87990BB1B70BEE0046C\hello.d.ED85692521C0A87990BB1B70BEE0046C","C:\Users\me\Ap
> pData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\hello.d.ED85692521C0A87990BB1B70BEE0046C.exe",,user32+ker
> nel32/noi;
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.1
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2004  All rights reserved.
> C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\rdmd-hello.d-ED85692521C0A87990BB1B70BEE004
> 6C\hello.d.ED85692521C0A87990BB1B70BEE0046C
>  Error 2: File Not Found C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\rdmd-hello.d-ED856
> 92521C0A87990BB1B70BEE0046C\hello.d.ED85692521C0A87990BB1B70BEE0046C
> --- errorlevel 1
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Do you have any idea what's going on there?

I suspect link.exe has trouble with that long path including the oddly 
named \.rdmd\ in there. Could you please could paste the dmd invocation 
command in your prompt and then progressively simplifying the path names 
until you get something that works?

> =============
> 
> 
> Finally, on a tangential note, I'm part owner of a young VPS company.
> If I can talk the other owners into letting you have access to a Windows
> Server 2003 machine that you can log into remotely and use for some
> D testing, would that be useful to you?
 >
> Windows remote desktop performs pretty well, and with the Linux rdesktop
> program, you can integrate your clipboard and files from your Linux
> box. (That's actually how I use my Vista computer when I'm home. I just
> rdesktop into it from Linux, and have access to both systems.)
> 
> Wine is great, but for some of these cases, having a real Windows machine
> is a real help. 2k3 is very similar to XP, so it would make a decent testbed
> for D development.
> 
> If you're interested, I'll see if I can get it set up tomorrow and email
> you privately with the access details.

I think that would be absolutely great, but only if it's absolutely no 
hassle for you to set up. By the way, does Windows Server 2003 offer 
some command-line access (a la ssh) in addition to rdesktop (which is 
indeed very nice)? Command-line access would allow me to automate builds 
and tests.


Thanks much!

Andrei