CMake with D support early snapshot

Meta jared771 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 13:11:02 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 17:50:32 UTC, Trent Forkert wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Given the recent chatter and movement on CMake D support, I've 
> decided to go public with a project of mine earlier than I had 
> intended.
>
> Before I go further, a request: do *not* post this to 
> HN/reddit/etc just yet. It is still in early stages and an 
> upstream CMake 3.0 release (without D support) is incoming. 
> Announcing this far and wide will only yield confusion at this 
> time.
>
> So, what is this?
>
> It's CMake, with various modifications to work toward making D 
> a first-class citizen of the CMake world.
>
> While other projects exist that attempt to add D support, they 
> all do so without touching CMake's C++ sources. This means that 
> they will inevitably fall short of the mark.
>
> Additionally, when I first started toying with this several 
> months ago, there were a lot of implementation/design issues in 
> the existing projects, that went against the way CMake's 
> internals expect things to be done. I'm not sure how the 
> current scene is in that regard.
>
> Status
>
> * GDC is fully supported, as is DMD master
> * LDC and older DMD's will work for simpler projects, but won't 
> handle linking external libraries at the moment. I had a hack 
> workaround for this before, but recently removed it when 
> restructuring things a bit.
> * 32-bit DMD on Windows can't really be used for a C/C++/D 
> mixed project right now because of problems I'm having with 
> Optlink
> * VisualD generation works (tested on VS 2010 and VS 2012)
> * Makefile generation (and similar generators) work
> * Works on Windows and Linux. OS X ought to work, but is 
> untested, as I don't have my OS X dev environment set up at the 
> moment
> * D is listed on the CMake Qt GUI, which is nice
>
> Github: https://github.com/trentforkert/cmake
> Wiki: https://github.com/trentforkert/cmake/wiki
> Binaries: 
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5vzzNch4TtET09HM0NLWURKV1U&usp=drive_web#list
>
>
> As is tradition here, destroy!
>
>  - Trent

Is this ready to be posted to HN/Reddit, or still no-go?


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