Is there a GDC solution that can substitute rdmd ? Something like #!/usr/bin/gdc

[wjoe]

On Sunday, 30 June 2019 at 09:38:01 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Thu, 27 Jun 2019 17:11:36 +0000 schrieb wjoe:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> since D is now a GCC built-in D appears as a nice replacement 
>> for shell scripts.
>> 
>> I'm *not* looking for a dub solution as dub is something that 
>> needs to be installed.
>> 
>> A web search found a wrapper script for GCC which imitates 
>> rdmd for C but something like that still isn't out of the box 
>> experience.
>> 
>> So, is there a GDC solution that can substitute rdmd ?
>> 
>> Something like:
>> 
>> #!/usr/bin/gdc
>> 
>> int main()
>> {
>> //...
>> }
>
> Shouldn't rdmd somehow work with other compilers as well? Maybe 
> you'll also need gdmd though, so that rdmd calls gdmd which 
> then calls gdc. But I think more recent dmd versions also 
> support #!/bin/dmd without rdmd, so maybe our gdmd should also 
> support #!/bin/gdmd usage.
>
> Neither gdmd nor rdmd are shipped with gdc though in most 
> distributions, so none of these solutions are out-of-the-box. I 
> think we need to make sure that gdmd gets cleaned up and 
> packaged by all linux distributions. Iit will likely still be 
> in a different package in most linux distributions though.

Hello,

On Gentoo, all of those are in the dlang overlay. But I was 
trying to avoid that.
I guess a --run option for gcc wouldn't be too bad, so this would 
be supported by all the languages gcc supports :)

anyways, thanks for your reply.