Is run.d going to be expand for runtime and the phobos library?

kinke noone at nowhere.com
Sat Jun 13 13:44:42 UTC 2020


On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 08:58:56 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:
> - AFAIK, installing a GNUmake on Windows involves installing a 
> whole Posix emulation/compatibility environment like cygwin, 
> msys or msys2, which brings it's own rats nest of problems
> - Even if Make is not a problem, it is still dependent on Posix 
> compatible shell, so that's one more variable in the equation

Side note: LDC has been using GNUmake on Windows for years, incl. 
extending some upstream Makefiles to work with and test Windows 
targets too.
While GNUmake itself is surprisingly portable (source comes with 
a Visual Studio project working out of the box, resulting in a 
little 330 KB Win64 stand-alone executable), the tests require 
bash and the usual little GNU tools.
Fortunately, a normal git installation on Windows provides the 
expected GNU environment, incl. bash.


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