[warning: rant ahead]
I'm amazed by the lack of documentation - or to say it better,
documentation that works - on how to compile DMD and eventually
Phobos. Here
[https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Windows_2] we
have awfully categorized yet promising information on how to
seriously compile DMD from source.
Before I compile dmd, I attempted to compile druntime & phobos
and failed miserably. For God's sake no place in docs say that I
need DMC, which is something I figured from make error output. I
reinstalled dmd and this time I checked that box which makes
installer automatically download and install dmc. After making
dmc available from %path%, I was able to compile phobos, that
seemed too good to be true. Then here comes the part about
compiling dmd:
$ make -fwin32.mak release
This innocent looking command which supposed to compile dmd
failed with an error message that killed my brain cells:
$ run idgen
$ Error: 'run' not found
WTF? Are we seriously trying to execute "run"? Ohh the horror!
Walking on the edge of going mad, I noticed a horrible detail in
win32.mak file:
# D compiler (set with env variable)
#HOST_DC=dmd
The fact that HOST_DC=dmd is commented out and not being defined
as an environment variable is shameful to the max.
After fixing make file, I was finally able to compile dmd. Now I
want to sue D Language Foundation for dealing me mental damage.
Thanks for reading.
