• Phil Lavoie (13/13) Aug 06 2014 I'm trying to build dmd from source but "make" can't open the
• Brad Anderson (3/10) Aug 06 2014 Close. You need the extension, I believe.
• Phil Lavoie (2/15) Aug 06 2014 Nope, still not working, but thx.
• Brad Anderson (2/3) Aug 06 2014 Hmm, are you in the src directory?
• Phil Lavoie (5/8) Aug 06 2014 Yes and ls *.mak shows three makefiles:
• Brad Anderson (5/14) Aug 06 2014 ls? If you're not, I recommend using the cmd.exe terminal.
• Phil Lavoie (6/22) Aug 06 2014 Yeah I read that thx.

"Phil Lavoie" <maidenphil hotmail.com> writes:

I'm trying to build dmd from source but "make" can't open the 
makefile.

I checked out the source and everything and the make version I 
use is the one that comes with the distribution:
Digital Mars Make Version 5.06

So I'm in the source folder (...\dmd2\src\dmd\src), I can clearly 
see that there is the file win32.mak present and I run:
make release -fwin32

Here is the output:
Error: can't read makefile 'win32'

I'm building on Windows btw.

Thanks,
Phil

"Brad Anderson" <eco gnuk.net> writes:

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:15:36 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
 [...]
 make release -fwin32

 Here is the output:
 Error: can't read makefile 'win32'

 I'm building on Windows btw.

 Thanks,
 Phil

Close. You need the extension, I believe.

make -f win32.mak release

"Phil Lavoie" <maidenphil hotmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:18:52 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
 On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:15:36 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
 [...]
 make release -fwin32

 Here is the output:
 Error: can't read makefile 'win32'

 I'm building on Windows btw.

 Thanks,
 Phil

 Close. You need the extension, I believe.

 make -f win32.mak release

Nope, still not working, but thx.

"Brad Anderson" <eco gnuk.net> writes:

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:27:55 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
 Nope, still not working, but thx.

Hmm, are you in the src directory?

"Phil Lavoie" <maidenphil hotmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:37:46 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
 On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:27:55 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
 Nope, still not working, but thx.

 Hmm, are you in the src directory?

Yes and ls *.mak shows three makefiles:
osmodel.mak
posix.mak
win32.mak

"Brad Anderson" <eco gnuk.net> writes:

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:50:50 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
 On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:37:46 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
 On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:27:55 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
 Nope, still not working, but thx.

 Hmm, are you in the src directory?

 Yes and ls *.mak shows three makefiles:
 osmodel.mak
 posix.mak
 win32.mak

ls? If you're not, I recommend using the cmd.exe terminal.
optlink has had problems with using other terminals.

You may want to look at this guide if you haven't already:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

"Phil Lavoie" <maidenphil hotmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 02:13:38 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
 On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:50:50 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
 On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:37:46 UTC, Brad Anderson 
 wrote:
 On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 01:27:55 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
 Nope, still not working, but thx.

 Hmm, are you in the src directory?

 Yes and ls *.mak shows three makefiles:
 osmodel.mak
 posix.mak
 win32.mak

 ls? If you're not, I recommend using the cmd.exe terminal.
 optlink has had problems with using other terminals.

 You may want to look at this guide if you haven't already:

 http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

Yeah I read that thx.

Well, it seems like it was indeed the powershell that was 
troubling it. Just tried it with cmd and it seems to work.

Thx Brad,

Phil