Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Walter Bright]

On 9/1/2013 11:58 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 01-Sep-2013 22:44, Walter Bright пишет:
>> On 9/1/2013 11:01 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> The only one I see is
>>> VS110COMNTOOLS
>>
>> Very strange. When I click on the shortcut "Visual Studio x64 Win64..."
>> to open a command prompt, it sets a veritable blizzard of environment
>> variables.
>
> Ah, that command prompt...
> VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\
> WindowsSdkDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\
>
> However the said windows kit folder has tree like this:
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Lib\win8\um\{arm,x86,amd64}
>
> That 'win8\um' sub-folder is what must be throwing it off. It's nothing like
> that in Win7 SDK.
>
>>> There are 2 distinct things - libraries are ound in Platform SDK (or
>>> rather
>>> WindowsSDK these days) and version 8 differs from 7. You can download and
>>> install it (any version) - it's a free download.
>>> Compiler/linkers are installed to VisualStudio and are dealt with
>>> separately.
>>>
>>> I still have this error when trying to comompile with debug info:
>>>
>>> LINK : fatal error LNK1101: incorrect MSPDB110.DLL version; recheck
>>> installation
>>> of this product
>>>
>>> No idea whose fault is it (DMD vs MS linker vs something in my
>>> paths/env).
>>
>> DMD does not load any DLLs.
>
> Okay, then it could very well be just me messing with paths/env.
>
> OT: MS x64 compiler too could be had for free (it come with SDK I installed not
> VS express)
>
>>> + I have to redefine everything in order to compile phobos/druntime as
>>> these are
>>> hardcoded to VS10 (again !) thus I don't usually test/build x64
>>> Phobos. It's far
>>> less hassle for me to keep around x64 Linux virtual box for testing.
>>
>> When I compile phobos, for example, I use the following makefile (named
>> "makefile"). It is very handy for resetting the environment variables
>> used by win32.mak.
>>
>> --------------
>> # Makefile to build D runtime library phobos.lib for Win32
>> # Designed to work with \dm\bin\make.exe
>
> Thanks! I could borrow that.
> With that said I don't quite like Makefiles at all.
>

I think the most practical thing at the moment is to:

1. put comments in sc.ini explaining it better
2. replace the hardcoded tails that link.c appends to the sc.ini values with new 
settings in sc.ini
3. provide commented-out example settings for each variant of VS as we discover 
what they should be