Have Win DMD use gmake instead of a separate DMMake makefile?

[Mike Parker]

On Sunday, 11 August 2013 at 05:48:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/10/2013 4:21 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Saturday, August 10, 2013 14:35:04 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Is this something that would be acceptable, or does building 
>>> DMD for
>>> Windows need to stay as DM make?
>>
>> I don't see any problem with it, but that doesn't mean that 
>> Walter won't.
>
> Tools built for Unix never work right on Windows. It's why, for 
> example, I run git on Linux and don't use the Windows badly 
> ported versions of git. Tiresome problems revolve around 
> failure to adapt to \ path separators, ; in PATH, CRLF line 
> endings, Windows SEH, case insensitive file names, no symbolic 
> links, etc., no Perl installed, etc.
>

Things can be wonky from a vanilla windows command prompt, which 
is why I never use any Linux tools there. MSYS makes all those 
problems go away. I use git exclusively on windows, but via 
gitbash, which is built on top of MSYS.

Of course, it would be silly to require MSYS or Cygwin to build 
on Windows, but there's always CMake. A number of open source 
projects use it these days. Ship a configuration file with the 
source, then the user can generate Makefiles for a number of 
compilers and platforms.