Suggestion: Build windows DMD with MSVC

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 01.06.2013 16:39, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Am 01.06.2013 16:34, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic:
>> On 6/1/13, Benjamin Thaut <code at benjamin-thaut.de> wrote:
>>> And your unittests should run again.
>>
>> I've tried this fix, it still doesn't work for me:
>>
>> $ echo unittest { assert(0); } void main() { } > test.d
>>
>> $ rdmd --force -unittest --compiler=dmd_dmc test.d
>>> core.exception.AssertError at test(1): unittest failure
>>
>> $ rdmd --force -unittest --compiler=dmd_msc test.d
>>>
>>
>> I've tried with a clean build and then a full release build.
>>
>
> Strange, is this the latest git version of dmd? The last time I tried
> compiling with MSVC was dmd 2.062
> Its possible that its borken again, as the only guy keeping it working
> is Rainer Schuetze. Thid you try debugging the executable generated by
> the dmd_msc ? Most likely its throwing some hardware exception which
> emediatly kills it.
>
> Kind Regards
> Benjamin Thaut

If I remember correctly you also had problems with a MSVC build invoking 
the linker if there are spaces in the path to it. I suspect this might 
also happen when rdmd tries to run the program.