reggae v0.10.0 - The meta build system just got better

[Atila Neves]

On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 14:19:27 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 21:19:22 UTC, Atila Neves 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 15:24:52 UTC, Andrey 
>> Zherikov wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 7 September 2023 at 17:34:48 UTC, Atila Neves 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, why do we need one more build tool?
>>
>> Because we don't have one now. Using CMake for D is horrible, 
>> and none of the alternatives are that much better. 
>> Hand-written Makefiles are a nightmare and will never get 
>> dependencies right. dub isn't a build system, although it 
>> includes a very limited one that can't be extended. Want to 
>> build D and C++ [snip]
>
> You can call CMake with a pre-build command right? Would it 
> make sense to add an example of that?

Yes, and I've done that, but it's not great. I'm going to add 
CMake support to reggae by making CMake export its compilation DB 
and importing that.

> It also might make sense to include in the tests/projects 
> folder an importC example (not sure it makes sense to include a 
> CMake example there).

That's a great idea, thanks!