Need help to finish DMD zip/7z release generator (alpha release)

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 22.09.2013 04:54, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:39:22 -0400
> Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:38:06 +0200
>> Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> I noticed that it is the git process that has a handle on that
>>> directory. It seems to able to delete the directory if you run git
>>> from the parent directory and pass "dmd" instead of ".".
>>
>> Hmm, well it's been working fine on my Win machine as-is, but I'll
>> look into doing that. I think I had some reason for doing it this
>> way, but it probably wasn't anything major.
>>
>
> Just before I was about to make that fix, I started experiencing the
> same problem, too.
>
> I've made the change you suggested and it seems to work for me. Can you
> verify?
>

I retried and had the issue with access to %TEMP%/".create_dmd_release 
problem problem during startup again. This time it was TortoiseGitCache 
holding a handle to that directory. Killing that process helped.

Then, the 32-bit build ran flawlessly if I

- add the dmc binary path to the PATH environment variable

- add the path to some existing dmd installation to the path. rdmd is 
needed to run get_dlibcurl32.bat. [OT: I noticed it uses a VB script to 
do the download. Shudder ;-) Here is a http-get function without needing 
curl: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/blob/master/stdext/httpget.d 
, though I don't know how usable it is. ]

I usually don't have these paths added because the folders contain too 
many executables that try to replace more useful versions of them 
(lib,link,shell,make). I'd prefer if you could specify the path to dmc 
as an option, but it's not a big deal as the task of building the 
release is pretty special anyway.

It would be nice if rdmd is used from the current build, though.

After the successful build I tried the 64-bit build. It stopped here:

Building Druntime 64-bit
Entering dir: 
C:\Users\Rainer\AppData\Local\Temp\.create_dmd_release\druntime
Running: make MODEL=64 DMD=../dmd/src/dmd -f win64.mak
mkdir import\core\stdc
A subdirectory or file import\core\stdc already exists.
mkdir import\core\sys\freebsd\sys
A subdirectory or file import\core\sys\freebsd\sys already exists.
mkdir import\core\sys\linux\sys
A subdirectory or file import\core\sys\linux\sys already exists.
mkdir import\core\sys\osx\mach
A subdirectory or file import\core\sys\osx\mach already exists.
mkdir import\core\sys\posix\arpa
A subdirectory or file import\core\sys\posix\arpa already exists.
mkdir import\core\sys\posix\net
A subdirectory or file import\core\sys\posix\net already exists.
mkdir import\core\sys\posix\netinet
A subdirectory or file import\core\sys\posix\netinet already exists.
mkdir import\core\sys\posix\sys
A subdirectory or file import\core\sys\posix\sys already exists.
mkdir import\core\sys\windows
A subdirectory or file import\core\sys\windows already exists.
mkdir import\etc\linux
A subdirectory or file import\etc\linux already exists.
"\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC"\bin\amd64\cl -c 
/Z7 /I"\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC"\INCLUDE 
/I"\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A"\Include 
src\core\stdc\errno.c -Foerrno_c.obj
Error: '\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
10.0\VC\bin\amd64\cl' not found
Entering dir: C:\tmp\d\installer2\create_dmd_release\x
create_dmd_release: Error: Command failed (ran from dir 
'C:\Users\Rainer\AppData\Local\Temp\.create_dmd_release\druntime'): make 
MODEL=64 DMD=../dmd/src/dmd -f win64.mak

This happens because the VCDIR variable is not passed to the makefile 
(to work with VS2012+ you'll have to pass CC and AR explicitely as the 
path to the binaries inside the VS installation has changed).