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digitalmars.D - minit and DMD's makefiles

reply Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
I'm finding that much of the time I try to compile DMD from Git HEAD,
the timestamp on 'src/rt/minit.obj' has become out of date with the
timestamp on 'src/rt/minit.asm', causing the makefile to try to rebuild
it, and bail with "masm not found" until I update the timestamp on
masm.obj. Anyone else finding this a common thing, too?

The thing is, according to earlier discussions (about a years or two
ago, IIRC), minit.asm is something that basically never changes and
shouldn't change. And indeed, according to Git, aside from the
copyright/license comments, it hasn't changed since *at least* as far
back as 2009.

So I'm thinking: Perhaps the makefiles should be adjusted so that
minit.(obj|asm) are ignored unless a special extra build target is
specified? Or is there a better way?
Feb 15 2013
parent reply Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On 2/15/13, Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> wrote:

 Anyone else finding this a common thing, too?


Yes. My personal fix is to create an empty "masm386.bat" file and put
it in my %PATH%. The makefile happily invokes it even though it does
nothing, and the build can continue.
Feb 15 2013
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 2/15/2013 2:39 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

 On 2/15/13, Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> wrote:

 Anyone else finding this a common thing, too?


 Yes. My personal fix is to create an empty "masm386.bat" file and put
 it in my %PATH%. The makefile happily invokes it even though it does
 nothing, and the build can continue.


LOL. I just do:

    touch minit.obj

as required.
Feb 15 2013
parent reply Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On 2/16/13, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 LOL. I just do:

     touch minit.obj

 as required.


Mine's more automated. :p

Btw, have you had the chance to look at
https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink/pull/1 ?
Feb 15 2013
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 2/15/2013 6:19 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

 On 2/16/13, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 LOL. I just do:

      touch minit.obj

 as required.


 Mine's more automated. :p

 Btw, have you had the chance to look at
 https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink/pull/1 ?


I looked at it, but I haven't gone through it. Thanks for doing it! What's 
standing in the way of you building it?
Feb 15 2013
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 16.02.2013 05:07, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 2/15/2013 6:19 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

 On 2/16/13, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 LOL. I just do:

      touch minit.obj

 as required.


 Mine's more automated. :p

 Btw, have you had the chance to look at
 https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink/pull/1 ?


 I looked at it, but I haven't gone through it. Thanks for doing it!
 What's standing in the way of you building it?


I actually succeded in building optlink, but there are a few things that 
had to be changed:

- masm (v9 or v10) complained about a number of "mov AL,errorCode" which 
had to be changed to AX (I guess it would not assume an external to fit 
into a byte)

- I had to add a number of ridiculous "BYTE PTR" modifiers

- The SLR tools are 16-bit executables so I installed a VM running XP 
just to find out that they don't work there too. Instead I changed the 
makefiles to use lib from the dmd distrubution rather than optlib.

What version of masm are you using?

Shall I make it a pull request?
Feb 15 2013
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 2/15/2013 11:59 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 On 16.02.2013 05:07, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 2/15/2013 6:19 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

 On 2/16/13, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:

 LOL. I just do:

      touch minit.obj

 as required.


 Mine's more automated. :p

 Btw, have you had the chance to look at
 https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink/pull/1 ?


 I looked at it, but I haven't gone through it. Thanks for doing it!
 What's standing in the way of you building it?


 I actually succeded in building optlink, but there are a few things that had to
 be changed:

 - masm (v9 or v10) complained about a number of "mov AL,errorCode" which had to
 be changed to AX (I guess it would not assume an external to fit into a byte)

 - I had to add a number of ridiculous "BYTE PTR" modifiers

 - The SLR tools are 16-bit executables so I installed a VM running XP just to
 find out that they don't work there too. Instead I changed the makefiles to use
 lib from the dmd distrubution rather than optlib.

 What version of masm are you using?


5.10 from 1988 :-)

Masm constantly changed the syntax it would accept.



 Shall I make it a pull request?


You can, but I don't have those masm's. Or maybe I do in VS10, I just never
looked.
Feb 16 2013
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 2/16/2013 12:28 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

 You can, but I don't have those masm's. Or maybe I do in VS10, I just never
looked.


Ok, I looked, and I have an ml.exe that says it's Macro Assembler Version 
10.00.30319.01
Feb 16 2013
prev sibling parent reply Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On 2/16/13, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> wrote:

 I actually succeded in building optlink


That's great to hear. If you could make a pull to update to the latest
MASM compiler it would be great.
Feb 16 2013
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 16.02.2013 15:49, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

 On 2/16/13, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> wrote:

 I actually succeded in building optlink


 That's great to hear. If you could make a pull to update to the latest
 MASM compiler it would be great.


https://github.com/DigitalMars/optlink/pull/2
Feb 16 2013