D2 port of xfBuild (alpha version)

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Dec 4 03:11:35 PST 2011


On 2011-12-02 18:38, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Honestly I don't think xfBuild should be used in IDEs, an IDE already
> has all the information about module dependencies and has a better
> idea on what to compile.
>
> Currently xfBuild is actually slower than RDMD on full builds (both
> the D1 and D2 branch). When I further refactor the codebase I'll see
> what is slowing it down. However on incremental builds xfBuild is
> faster. It still likes to crash sometime though, so RDMD is safer to
> use at the moment.
>
> Anyway RDMD is DMD-specific, but I want xfBuild to work with multiple
> compilers (DMD/GDC/LDC/SDC) and linkers.

Both GDC and LDC ships with DMD wrappers.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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