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reply Andre Tampubolon <andre lc.vlsm.org> writes:
I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
src\core\sys\windows\windows.d

dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj

dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c

dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
Error: 'dmc' not found

Strange. This thing never happened before.
May 16 2012
next sibling parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
"Andre Tampubolon" <andre lc.vlsm.org> wrote in message 
news:jp1kld$15mj$1 digitalmars.com...

I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
 dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
 src\core\sys\windows\windows.d

 dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj

 dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c

 dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
 masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

 Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
 masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

 Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
 Error: 'dmc' not found

 Strange. This thing never happened before.


I've hit that before. Druntime comes with minit.obj already compiled. 
Apperently, minit.asm isn't expected to change, so it's not expected that 
minit.obj will need to be rebuilt. At least that's what I was told.

So what must have happened is the same as what happened to me: The timestamp 
on minit.asm was updated (or the file was inadvertantly changed). Or maybe 
minit.obj accidentally got deleted. Either way, make thinks minit needs to 
be rebuilt (which is not normally expected of minit), so it tries to, and it 
can't find masm386 (which doesn't come with DMD or DMC), so the error.

So just:

1. Check that minit.obj still exists, and if not, grab it again.

2. Make sure the timestamp on minit.asm isn't newer than minit.obj

3. Make sure minit.asm didn't get changed.
May 16 2012
parent Andre Tampubolon <andre lc.vlsm.org> writes:
minit.obj is still there.

I commented this part:
src\rt\minit.obj : src\rt\minit.asm
	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) src\rt\minit.asm

That works.

On 5/17/2012 11:35 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 "Andre Tampubolon" <andre lc.vlsm.org> wrote in message 
 news:jp1kld$15mj$1 digitalmars.com...

 I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
 dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
 src\core\sys\windows\windows.d

 dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj

 dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c

 dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
 masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

 Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
 masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

 Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
 Error: 'dmc' not found

 Strange. This thing never happened before.


 
 I've hit that before. Druntime comes with minit.obj already compiled. 
 Apperently, minit.asm isn't expected to change, so it's not expected that 
 minit.obj will need to be rebuilt. At least that's what I was told.
 
 So what must have happened is the same as what happened to me: The timestamp 
 on minit.asm was updated (or the file was inadvertantly changed). Or maybe 
 minit.obj accidentally got deleted. Either way, make thinks minit needs to 
 be rebuilt (which is not normally expected of minit), so it tries to, and it 
 can't find masm386 (which doesn't come with DMD or DMC), so the error.
 
 So just:
 
 1. Check that minit.obj still exists, and if not, grab it again.
 
 2. Make sure the timestamp on minit.asm isn't newer than minit.obj
 
 3. Make sure minit.asm didn't get changed.
May 17 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, 16 May 2012 18:35:33 -0700, Andre Tampubolon <andre lc.vlsm.org>
wrote:


 I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
 dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
 src\core\sys\windows\windows.d

 dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj

 dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c

 dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
 masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

 Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
 masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

 Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
 Error: 'dmc' not found

 Strange. This thing never happened before.


I just struck this as well after doing a rebase to bring my drt branch up
to date. But the question is, if minit.obj is already included, why does
it try to build minit.asm? It looks like that line could easily be deleted
to no effect.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
May 16 2012
prev sibling parent reply "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, 16 May 2012 18:35:33 -0700, Andre Tampubolon <andre lc.vlsm.org>  
wrote:


 I was trying to build druntime. I got this error:
 dmd -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport\core\sys\windows\windows.di
 src\core\sys\windows\windows.d

 dmc -c  src\core\stdc\errno.c -oerrno_c.obj

 dmc -c  src\rt\complex.c

 dmc -c  src\rt\minit.asm
 masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

 Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
 masm386 -DM_I386=1 -D_WIN32 -Mx src\rt\minit.asm;

 Can't run 'masm386', check PATH
 Error: 'dmc' not found

 Strange. This thing never happened before.


It looks like 2 days ago someone DID in fact change the minit.asm file.  
They changed the references to LICENSE and README. Your best bet is  
probably to redownload minit.obj from the druntime repo to update it's  
modified date.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
May 16 2012
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
"Adam Wilson" <flyboynw gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:op.wefr0erm707hn8 invictus.skynet.com...

 It looks like 2 days ago someone DID in fact change the minit.asm file. 
 They changed the references to LICENSE and README. Your best bet is 
 probably to redownload minit.obj from the druntime repo to update it's 
 modified date.


In that case, the copy of minit.obj in git really should have its timestamp 
updated too, otherwise people are just going to keep running into this. (Or, 
as someone suggested, just remove the "minit.obj depends on minit.asm" from 
the makefile.)
May 16 2012
next sibling parent "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, 16 May 2012 22:53:59 -0700, Nick Sabalausky  
<SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> wrote:


 "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw gmail.com> wrote in message
 news:op.wefr0erm707hn8 invictus.skynet.com...

 It looks like 2 days ago someone DID in fact change the minit.asm file.
 They changed the references to LICENSE and README. Your best bet is
 probably to redownload minit.obj from the druntime repo to update it's
 modified date.


 In that case, the copy of minit.obj in git really should have its  
 timestamp
 updated too, otherwise people are just going to keep running into this.  
 (Or,
 as someone suggested, just remove the "minit.obj depends on minit.asm"  
 from
 the makefile.)


I'm editing the makefiles anyways, it could be done, but I want to make  
sure there are no other weird dependencies on it first.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
May 16 2012
prev sibling parent reply "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Thu, 17 May 2012 01:53:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky  
<SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> wrote:



 (Or,
 as someone suggested, just remove the "minit.obj depends on minit.asm"  
 from
 the makefile.)


I don't think this is a good idea, minit.asm could have code changes, in  
which case you are building with a stale object.  I'd rather have the  
error than accidentally use a stale object.

Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?

-Steve
May 17 2012
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 5/17/2012 6:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?


No.
May 17 2012
next sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-05-17 17:53, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 5/17/2012 6:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?


 No.


Wasn't the whole point of supporting inline assembly directly in D to 
avoid these situations.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
May 17 2012
parent "David Nadlinger" <see klickverbot.at> writes:
On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 20:07:23 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2012-05-17 17:53, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 5/17/2012 6:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?


 No.


 Wasn't the whole point of supporting inline assembly directly 
 in D to avoid these situations.


It has been some time since I last looked at it, but IIRC there 
is no way to write minit.asm in D inline asm because it requires 
control over the name of its data sections in order to be able to 
»bracket« all the ModuleInfo references (so an array of all 
ModuleInfos can be reconstructed later).

David
May 17 2012
prev sibling parent reply "Martin Nowak" <dawg dawgfoto.de> writes:
On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 15:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 5/17/2012 6:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?


 No.


What's the 'official' tool that was used to compile the 
checked-in obj?
May 23 2012
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 5/23/2012 1:40 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:

 On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 15:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 5/17/2012 6:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?


 No.


 What's the 'official' tool that was used to compile the checked-in obj?


I use MASM386, but that is no longer available, and being a 16 bit program it 
won't even run on Win7.
May 23 2012
parent reply dennis luehring <dl.soluz gmx.net> writes:
Am 23.05.2012 23:51, schrieb Walter Bright:

 On 5/23/2012 1:40 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:

  On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 15:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

  On 5/17/2012 6:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

  Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?


  No.


  What's the 'official' tool that was used to compile the checked-in obj?


 I use MASM386, but that is no longer available, and being a 16 bit program it
 won't even run on Win7.


MASM should work, or better JWasm (http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html)

but were to find the included macros.asm?
May 23 2012
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 5/23/2012 9:06 PM, dennis luehring wrote:

 Am 23.05.2012 23:51, schrieb Walter Bright:

 On 5/23/2012 1:40 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:

 On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 15:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 5/17/2012 6:38 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?


 No.


 What's the 'official' tool that was used to compile the checked-in obj?


 I use MASM386, but that is no longer available, and being a 16 bit program it
 won't even run on Win7.


 MASM should work, or better JWasm (http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html)

 but were to find the included macros.asm?


It's part of the dmc distribution. But it should be rewritten not to need it.
May 23 2012
prev sibling parent "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw gmail.com> writes:
On Thu, 17 May 2012 06:38:15 -0700, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy yahoo.com> wrote:


 On Thu, 17 May 2012 01:53:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky  
 <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> wrote:



 (Or,
 as someone suggested, just remove the "minit.obj depends on minit.asm"  
 from
 the makefile.)


 I don't think this is a good idea, minit.asm could have code changes, in  
 which case you are building with a stale object.  I'd rather have the  
 error than accidentally use a stale object.

 Any chance this asm file can be written in D with asm block?

 -Steve


Ok, I never wrote the change into the makefiles anyways, I just updated  
 from the repo to change the modified date.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
May 17 2012