On Thursday, 26 November 2020 at 00:17:26 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote:
One of the issues is, I don't know what DRuntime really is. As
far as I understand on the surface-level, it's functionality
one would expect to be implemented by the compiler, but
actually implemented in plain D code. A low-level Phobos if you
want. So I'm a little confused why there's even a need for it
to be "built". Isn't it "just code" like Phobos?
Phobos depends on DRuntime, and both Phobos and DRuntime depend
on the D compiler. When you download version 2.094.2 of the
compiler (the latest release), it comes with the corresponding
versions of Phobos and DRuntime, and is configured to
automatically include them in its import paths.
If you want to compile the development version of Phobos, you
will generally need the development versions of DRuntime and DMD
as well, because of the dependency relationships between them. If
you try to compile the development version of Phobos using the
latest released versions of DMD and DRuntime, you are liable to
run into dependency issues like the one in your original post.
*ME* Why would I need those? I haven't needed them back then.
I wrote that not saying "do the work for me, guys" but "please
tell me what changed".
I have no idea what changed for *your* setup, because (a) I
develop on Linux, not Windows, and (b) I've only been involved in
D development since 2018. Personally, I followed the instructions
on the "Starting as a Contributor" and "Contributing to Phobos"
pages, and they worked for me.
