[regan]

Hi,

I am trying to compile mango.lib on windows, I tried this:

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I came across this problem a while back, but honestly thought I had merely downloaded a dirty or not-quite-ready version of mango from /trunk. I should have posted this workaround earlier.

The .rsp file is a response-file that the digitalmars tools are sensitive to. Anything following the '@' character on the dmd command line is seen as a file that contains the rest of the command line. Its very useful for side-stepping the limited environment space in window's command-prompt, among other things.

In mango's case, this is supposed to be the list of files created in the $(OBJ) directory which happen to all be .obj files. However, I think Kris left out the step that creates the .rsp in the makefile.

I have cygwin installed on my windows box, so I inserted a line like this into the makefile:

+ls $(OBJ) > mango.rsp

... which basically pipes the entire list .obj files into the response file after dmd compiles the $(SRC) target files. The '+' prefix tells DM's make tool to execute the command in its own environment which (for reasons unknown) is the only way to get certain commands to work.

I've tried the same with "dir /b" but dir insists on putting carriage returns everywhere, thus ruining the response file.

As a work-around, you could code a small util (probably 20 lines of D at the most) that does the job of creating a proper repsonse file. Also, you could create a listing of obj files similar to the $(SRC) collection of d files in the makefile itself, but I see that as being a lot more work and would be a pain to recreate once mango is updated with any new files.
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