Bug 11997 – rdmd should search its binary path for the compiler

It should be possible to use 'rdmd' directly from the dmd.zip release. Currently one always has to specify the full path to the compiler. dmd2/linux/bin64/rdmd --compiler=dmd2/linux/bin64/dmd

Just ran into this now that ldc is starting to ship rdmd with the 1.3 beta2 release. What's weird is even if I add dmd's path from the unpacked zip to my PATH, rdmd can't find it, though I can call dmd just fine. rdmd only works without --compiler if dmd is installed in the system path. I can submit a PR so that rdmd always prepends its path to the defaultCompiler, so that the one next to it is the one tried. Let me know if you like that solution.

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/tools https://github.com/dlang/tools/commit/f7e6f4ed925f6a8f97b4c0f02cfce2620489357a Fix Issue 11997 - rdmd should search it's binary path for the compiler https://github.com/dlang/tools/commit/ee59ec92912cf98f4167a6802383804cb8d7aa9a Merge pull request #250 from joakim-noah/rdmd Fix Issue 11997 - rdmd should search it's binary path for the compiler merged-on-behalf-of: Vladimir Panteleev <[email protected]>

Commits pushed to newCTFE at https://github.com/dlang/tools https://github.com/dlang/tools/commit/f7e6f4ed925f6a8f97b4c0f02cfce2620489357a Fix Issue 11997 - rdmd should search it's binary path for the compiler https://github.com/dlang/tools/commit/ee59ec92912cf98f4167a6802383804cb8d7aa9a Merge pull request #250 from joakim-noah/rdmd

Commits pushed to stable at https://github.com/dlang/tools https://github.com/dlang/tools/commit/f7e6f4ed925f6a8f97b4c0f02cfce2620489357a Fix Issue 11997 - rdmd should search it's binary path for the compiler https://github.com/dlang/tools/commit/ee59ec92912cf98f4167a6802383804cb8d7aa9a Merge pull request #250 from joakim-noah/rdmd

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/tools https://github.com/dlang/tools/commit/2e516ab51a5d1c0329312aa56960281c95e57a33 rdmd: Append binExt to the compiler path to check from the same directory Fixes using the compiler from rdmd's directory (issue 11997) on Windows.