On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 17:19:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
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.
Normally, you just execute vcvars32.bat/vcvars64.bat before doing
anything from the command line and you are set. Even make scripts
I created five years ago for VS2008 still work without a hitch on
VS2013 without any manual PATH trickery. The detailed directory
layout of VS is not something makefiles are supposed to know
about.
