D2 port of xfBuild (alpha version)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-29 22:14, torhu wrote:
> On 29.11.2011 13:20, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2011-11-29 12:00, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> FWIW a couple of bugs from the old issue tracker were fixed in the new
>>> fork. Bugs were reported here:
>>> https://bitbucket.org/h3r3tic/xfbuild/issue/16/xfbuild-crashes-if-full-path-to-deps-objs
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/h3r3tic/xfbuild/issue/17/xfbuild-crashes-optlink-on-windows-if-o
>>>
>>>
>>> There was also a multithreaded bug that manifested itself on Windows
>>> where printing to the console would be interleaved and left the
>>> message scrambled. This is now fixed.
>>>
>>> Also, the +xpath option was added, first discussed here:
>>> https://bitbucket.org/h3r3tic/xfbuild/issue/1/add-a-xpath-option
>>>
>>> I'll have to look into the whole template instantiation "fiasco" and
>>> see where we are at that and if it can be resolved. Stay tuned.. :)
>>>
>>> https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/xfbuild
>>
>> Walter mentioned something that if the "-lib" flag is used it will
>> output templates to all object files. If that was what you were
>> referring to.
>>
>
> The -lib flag leads to bloated executables. Maybe the linker doesn't get
> rid of the duplicates, I don't know.

That may be so, but at least the application works, if Walter is correct 
about the -lib flag. He has also said he doesn't want to add a flag that 
does what's necessary with the templates.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg