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reply "Taylor Hillegeist" <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:
I have tried to build this and failed miserably. I have some 
questions?
What make do you use? digital mars, gnu. what tools do you need? 
is it possible? I also failed to build zlib32coff.lib

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `zlib32mscoff.lib'.  Stop.

I could say more but it probably wouldn't be useful.
Jul 22 2015
next sibling parent reply Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn writes:
On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 20:27:35 Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:

 I have tried to build this and failed miserably. I have some
 questions?
 What make do you use? digital mars, gnu. what tools do you need?
 is it possible? I also failed to build zlib32coff.lib

 make[2]: *** No rule to make target `zlib32mscoff.lib'.  Stop.

 I could say more but it probably wouldn't be useful.


AFAIK, COFF is not supported by dmd for 32-bit Windows. Walter made it so
that the 64-bit support used COFF and the VS linker rather than optlink, but
he left the 32-bit stuff as it was, so it still uses OMF and optlink.

- Jonathan M Davis
Jul 22 2015
parent "Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 23:39:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 20:27:35 Taylor Hillegeist via 
 Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:

 I have tried to build this and failed miserably. I have some
 questions?
 What make do you use? digital mars, gnu. what tools do you 
 need?
 is it possible? I also failed to build zlib32coff.lib

 make[2]: *** No rule to make target `zlib32mscoff.lib'.  Stop.

 I could say more but it probably wouldn't be useful.


 AFAIK, COFF is not supported by dmd for 32-bit Windows. Walter 
 made it so that the 64-bit support used COFF and the VS linker 
 rather than optlink, but he left the 32-bit stuff as it was, so 
 it still uses OMF and optlink.

 - Jonathan M Davis


Rainer worked on it last year. I believe 2.067 was the first 
release to support it, though it isn't documented in the 
compiler's help list.
Jul 22 2015
prev sibling parent reply "Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 20:27:37 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:

 I have tried to build this and failed miserably. I have some 
 questions?
 What make do you use? digital mars, gnu. what tools do you 
 need? is it possible? I also failed to build zlib32coff.lib

 make[2]: *** No rule to make target `zlib32mscoff.lib'.  Stop.

 I could say more but it probably wouldn't be useful.


First off, make sure you build a 32-bit COFF version of Phobos. 
DMD does not ship with it by default. You can use the Druntime 
and Phobos source included in the DMD distribution. You'll need 
to make sure you have Microsoft toolchain installed. See the post 
at [1] where Rainer shared the relevant bits of a batch file he 
uses to build. Visual Studio provides links in the Start menu to 
open up command prompts with a preconfigured environment, so if 
you use that you don't need the configuration at the top of the 
batch file.

Once the library is built, it will be written out in the Phobos 
source directory. I learned that it's not enough to copy it to 
DMD's lib directory -- it's never picked up. I copied it to the 
8.1 SDK lib directory.

Any C libraries you use will need to be compiled with Visual 
Studio (or a version of clang using the MS toolchain). When 
compiling D libraries or apps with DMD, pass the -m32mscoff 
switch. If you use DUB, you'll need to add it to your 
configuration in an -lflags directive.
Jul 22 2015
parent reply "Mike Parker" <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 01:39:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:


 post at [1] where Rainer shared the relevant bits of a batch


Gah, hate it when I forget the links.

[1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/m456t5$2jc4$1 digitalmars.com
Jul 22 2015
parent reply "Taylor Hillegeist" <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 01:43:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 01:39:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:


 post at [1] where Rainer shared the relevant bits of a batch


 Gah, hate it when I forget the links.

 [1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/m456t5$2jc4$1 digitalmars.com


IT worked! Placing this Batch file in the dmd2\src Folder.

---------------------------------- BEGIN FILE: BUILD.bat
set dm_make=C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\make.exe
set DMD=C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe
set cl32=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
12.0\VC\bin\cl.exe
set ar32=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
12.0\VC\bin\lib.exe

cd druntime
del /q errno_c.obj complex.obj
%dm_make% -f win64.mak DMD=%DMD% MODEL=32mscoff "CC=\"%cl32%\""
if errorlevel 1 goto xit
cd ..

cd phobos
cd etc\c\zlib
%dm_make% -f win64.mak clean
cd ..\..\..
%dm_make% -f win64.mak DMD=%DMD% MODEL=32mscoff "CC=\"%cl32%\"" 
MAKE=%dm_make% "AR=\"%ar32%\""
if errorlevel 1 goto xit
cd ..

---------------------------------- END FILE

I had to reinstall dmd (I think I messed up my dmd2\src folder 
somehow)
I used visual studio 2013 community edition.

SO. Where do i put it now that its built? I placed it in the 
dmd2\windows\lib and i still got LINK : fatal error LNK1104: 
cannot open file 'phobos32mscoff.lib'

... perhaps i need to edit the sc.ini file...
Jul 23 2015
parent reply "Taylor Hillegeist" <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 14:56:48 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:

 On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 01:43:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 [...]


 IT worked! Placing this Batch file in the dmd2\src Folder.

 ---------------------------------- BEGIN FILE: BUILD.bat
 set dm_make=C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\make.exe
 set DMD=C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe
 set cl32=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
 12.0\VC\bin\cl.exe
 set ar32=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
 12.0\VC\bin\lib.exe

 [...]


I found this nugget in the sc.ini file!

[Environment32mscoff]
LIB="% P%\..\lib32mscoff"

Apparently i need to create a lib32mscoff folder in 
C:\D\dmd2\windows\
Jul 23 2015
parent reply "Taylor Hillegeist" <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 15:23:07 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:

 I found this nugget in the sc.ini file!

 [Environment32mscoff]
 LIB="% P%\..\lib32mscoff"

 Apparently i need to create a lib32mscoff folder in 
 C:\D\dmd2\windows\


Well if its not one thing its always another :)

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'LIBC.lib'

This file is not on my computer... In recent versions of VC it 
has been replaced with LIBCMT.lib (multi-thread). So not really 
sure what the right thing is to do here.
Jul 23 2015
parent "Taylor Hillegeist" <taylorh140 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 15:39:15 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:

 On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 15:23:07 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
 wrote:

 I found this nugget in the sc.ini file!

 [Environment32mscoff]
 LIB="% P%\..\lib32mscoff"

 Apparently i need to create a lib32mscoff folder in 
 C:\D\dmd2\windows\


 Well if its not one thing its always another :)

 LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'LIBC.lib'

 This file is not on my computer... In recent versions of VC it 
 has been replaced with LIBCMT.lib (multi-thread). So not really 
 sure what the right thing is to do here.


LOL... I copied LIBCMT.lib and renamed it LIBC.lib and it 
worked... so if it works? Thanks everyone!
Jul 23 2015