On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 08:40:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On 8/5/2014 1:09 PM, Dicebot wrote:
Ok finally have managed to compile everything for Windows 8.1
+ Visual
C++ Express 2013 and I am very very happy that I do Linux
programming
for a living.
To be fair, I frequently build C and C++ projects with MinGW
and/or VC without needing to jump through any hoops, since most
projects these days either build with a build tool like
Premake/CMake/(Take Your Pick) or provide a number of Makefiles
for different compiler configurations. DMD's build system on
Windows is just masochistic.
I am most frustrated by the fact that they break the path layout
between Visual Studio releases for no reason and that cl.exe
can't find own basic dll out of the box without explicit path
hint. This has nothing to do with DMD build system - I can only
blame latter for no paying for every single Windows / Visual
Studio version out there to test path compatibility.
