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digitalmars.D.learn - Building D from source on Windows

reply Andrew Edwards <ridimz yahoo.com> writes:
I'm having problems setting up my programming environment on Windows and 
would really appreciate some assistance. Following instructions for 
Windows at [1], everything builds fine, however I cannot build with DMD 
afterwards because of linker errors.

The first such error said that the file C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe 
was missing. I moved a copy of link.exe from an from v2.064.2 to that 
location to try to remedy the situation. It did not work I was bombarded 
with a slew of errors like the one bellow:

     ..\druntime\lib\druntime.lib(thread)
     Error 35: Cannot Reach TARGET from FRAME at Relative 00041H from 
Segment _TEXT
     Segment _TEXT
     FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 000000H
     TARGET = External Symbol 
_D4core6thread6Thread7sm_thisC4Core6thread6Thread 93D24H
     FIXUP Type = Unknown Type
     --- errorlevel 1342

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.

[1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD
Jan 16 2014
next sibling parent reply "evilrat" <evilrat666 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 16 January 2014 at 17:41:02 UTC, Andrew Edwards 
wrote:

 I'm having problems setting up my programming environment on 
 Windows and would really appreciate some assistance. Following 
 instructions for Windows at [1], everything builds fine, 
 however I cannot build with DMD afterwards because of linker 
 errors.

 The first such error said that the file 
 C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe was missing. I moved a copy of 
 link.exe from an from v2.064.2 to that location to try to 
 remedy the situation. It did not work I was bombarded with a 
 slew of errors like the one bellow:

     ..\druntime\lib\druntime.lib(thread)
     Error 35: Cannot Reach TARGET from FRAME at Relative 00041H 
 from Segment _TEXT
     Segment _TEXT
     FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 000000H
     TARGET = External Symbol 
 _D4core6thread6Thread7sm_thisC4Core6thread6Thread 93D24H
     FIXUP Type = Unknown Type
     --- errorlevel 1342

 I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.

 [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD


is this x64? probably windows .lib's not linked such as kernel32 
and others...
Jan 16 2014
parent Andrew Edwards <ridimz yahoo.com> writes:
On 1/16/14, 1:10 PM, evilrat wrote:

 On Thursday, 16 January 2014 at 17:41:02 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:



 I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.

 [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD


 is this x64? probably windows .lib's not linked such as kernel32 and
 others...


Yes. Win7x64
Jan 16 2014
prev sibling parent reply Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:
16-Jan-2014 21:41, Andrew Edwards пишет:

 I'm having problems setting up my programming environment on Windows and
 would really appreciate some assistance. Following instructions for
 Windows at [1], everything builds fine, however I cannot build with DMD
 afterwards because of linker errors.

 The first such error said that the file C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe
 was missing. I moved a copy of link.exe from an from v2.064.2 to that
 location to try to remedy the situation. It did not work I was bombarded
 with a slew of errors like the one bellow:


I'd suggest getting a fresh optlink. Walter posted ftp links to it not 
long ago (DigitalMars public FTP).

it would help to know when exactly this problem comes up. I guess 
bulding Phobos?

      ..\druntime\lib\druntime.lib(thread)
      Error 35: Cannot Reach TARGET from FRAME at Relative 00041H from
 Segment _TEXT
      Segment _TEXT
      FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 000000H
      TARGET = External Symbol
 _D4core6thread6Thread7sm_thisC4Core6thread6Thread 93D24H
      FIXUP Type = Unknown Type
      --- errorlevel 1342


It could also mean that you are trying to link x64 object files with 
optlink.Being dump the tool thinks that it's a 32bit object just 
horribly broken. x64 requires its own section in sc.ini and MS Visual 
Studio with.

Try specifying model directly:
make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak

and if it doesn't help clean it first and try again:
make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak clean
make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak

Also - always first build druntime, then Phobos. Always with the same MODEL.

I've found that to cleanly build x64 and 32 on windows I have to run 
clean between builds (unlike in Linux/MacOS).


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky
Jan 16 2014
parent Andrew Edwards <ridimz yahoo.com> writes:
On 1/16/14, 2:03 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:

 16-Jan-2014 21:41, Andrew Edwards пишет:

 it would help to know when exactly this problem comes up. I guess
 bulding Phobos?


dmd, druntime, and phobos all build properly. The problem comes up when 
trying to build with dmd.



 It could also mean that you are trying to link x64 object files with
 optlink.Being dump the tool thinks that it's a 32bit object just
 horribly broken. x64 requires its own section in sc.ini and MS Visual
 Studio with.


I took the sc.ini file from v2.064.2 and it does have that section. I 
don't however have Visual Studio installed so that might be contributing 
to the problem.


 Try specifying model directly:
 make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak

 and if it doesn't help clean it first and try again:
 make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak clean
 make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak

 Also - always first build druntime, then Phobos. Always with the same
 MODEL.

 I've found that to cleanly build x64 and 32 on windows I have to run
 clean between builds (unlike in Linux/MacOS).


Ok. Got it, I'll give this a try as soon as I can get back to my system.



 Jan 16 2014