DFL + Tango build-error

ShadowIce · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

I'm trying to build DFL (0.9.6) with Tango (0.99rc3) and dmd 1.020, but all I get is this error:

gekkonier · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 28

You need a working environment with dmd, tango and then install dsss too into your dmd directory.

Then, you just extract the dfl files too into your dmd directory.

After that:

Chris Miller · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 514 Location: The Internet

Gekkonier is correct. The script that prints out "Compiling release DFL..." is for DMD and Phobos.

ShadowIce · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

Yes sure, but first I need the two DFL librarys, and that's where my problem is. They are neither in the zip nor in the installer (although the installer tries to build them but failes). And "dfl -dfl-build" results in the above error.

And I think I have a working environment with Tango, dmd and dsss (at least I can compile my own program that uses Tango).

Or other question, is it maybe not possible to build the DFL librarys with Tango and I have to use Phobos instead for this and can later switch to Tango again for my own software?

Edit: That's the output of "rebuild -dc=dmd-win-tango -ID:\Development\DigitalMars\dmd\import -debug -L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 helloworld.d" btw.

ShadowIce · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

Ok I think I found a solution to the rebuild problem. Seems as if my tango.lib was not up to date. Still I would rather prefer using a library instead of rebuild but "dfl -dfl-build" isn't fixed by this.

Chris Miller · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 514 Location: The Internet

The only DFL lib file that is needed with rebuild is dfl_build.lib, which is included; the other 2 libs are phobos-only. The dfl command is phobos-only as well. With Tango, you need to use rebuild (this is the only way I am supporting it at the moment), which links in all the DFL stuff for you, not needing the 2 other libs.

All the errors you're showing don't seem to be related to DFL. Try compiling a Tango hello-world first. When you get that working, then try adding DFL to the mix.

ShadowIce · Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

Yeah, problem with rebuild was at my side.

I also finally got the 2 libs by setting PAGESIZE, PRIORITY_MIN and PRIORITY_MAX in tango/core/Thread.di to some realistic values (4096, -15, 15) and by changing these 2 lines to makelib.bat (internal/_stdcwindows was missing):

DuronXP · Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 3

I am using jake to compile.
I find jake in dmd which bundle with tango

jake myapp.d dfl.lib dfl_build.lib