[Scons-dev] [Fwd: Re: Help needed for D support in SCons on Windows]

[Russel Winder]

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Subject: Re: Help needed for D support in SCons on Windows
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 10:51:44 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups: digitalmars.D

> On Tue, 02 Oct 2018 06:51:10 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> > It turns out there are a number problems with the SCons tests running on
> > Windows, many of them associated with the D support.
> > 
> > https://github.com/SCons/scons/issues/3205
> > 
> > As you will see I am choosing not to get involved in anything to do with
> > Windows. The D support in SCons on Windows does though need some work,
> > and so SCons needs some people to get involved – due to enlightened
> > self-interest.
> 
> I don't use SCons, but took a quick look; my current guess is that the 
> problem is the chocolatey installation of dmd and the rest in AppVeyor; 
> chocolatey doesn't install DMD in %SYSTEMROOT% and I don't know if the 
> path updates take effect without restarting the shell (my own PC is too 
> polluted to test this locally).
> 
> Using SCons.Debug.Trace just crashes with "ValueError: I/O operation on 
> closed file.", writing both to stdout and a file, so I haven't been able 
> to test anything.
> 
> --Ryan
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Russel.
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