Does Visual D support wildcards in build events?

[Jedi]

On Saturday, 20 February 2021 at 08:50:53 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 18/02/2021 09:04, Jedi wrote:
>> I'm having to hard code names and this is causing problems 
>> when I move the projects since they refer to the wrong 
>> locations. Basically the same stuff that C++/C#/VB/etc 
>> supports. I mainly just need the output exe as a special token 
>> that changes with the project type.
>> 
>
> If you are using the visualdproj projects, this might help: 
> https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/ProjectConfig.html
>
> When using the vcxproj, you have all the VC macros available.
>
> If this isn't what you mean or doesn't help, you will have to 
> be more specific.

So, they do work but they give releative paths. OUTDIR gives 
Win32/Debug.

For reference, [You could add this to the docs/link]

echo DMDINSTALLDIR - $(DMDINSTALLDIR)
echo WINDOWSSDKDIR - $(WINDOWSSDKDIR)
echo DEVENVDIR - $(DEVENVDIR)
echo VSINSTALLDIR - $(VSINSTALLDIR)
echo VISUALDINSTALLDIR - $(VISUALDINSTALLDIR)
echo PLATFORMNAME - $(PLATFORMNAME)
echo CONFIGURATIONNAME- $(CONFIGURATIONNAME)
echo OUTDIR - $(OUTDIR)
echo INTDIR - $(INTDIR)
echo INPUTPATH - $(INPUTPATH)
echo INPUTDIR - $(INPUTDIR)
echo INPUTFILENAME - $(INPUTFILENAME)
echo INPUTEXT - $(INPUTEXT)
echo INPUTNAME - $(INPUTNAME)
echo PROJECTPATH - $(PROJECTPATH)
echo PROJECTDIR - $(PROJECTDIR)
echo PROJECTFILENAME - $(PROJECTFILENAME)
echo PROJECTEXT - $(PROJECTEXT)
echo PROJECTNAME - $(PROJECTNAME)
echo SOLUTIONPATH - $(SOLUTIONPATH)
echo SOLUTIONDIR - $(SOLUTIONDIR)
echo SOLUTIONFILENAME - $(SOLUTIONFILENAME)
echo SOLUTIONEXT - $(SOLUTIONEXT)
echo SOLUTIONNAME - $(SOLUTIONNAME)
echo TARGETPATH - $(TARGETPATH)
echo TARGETDIR - $(TARGETDIR)
echo TARGETFILENAME - $(TARGETFILENAME)
echo TARGETEXT - $(TARGETEXT)
echo TARGETNAME - $(TARGETNAME)

I'm having to build the path to the exe, maybe you could add one 
directly?

"$(PROJECTDIR)\$(TARGETPATH)"

Seems to be the path to the exe.

Or just add ABSTARGET* or similar for the absolute target path. 
The reason it might be a good idea to add is 1. It's easy. 2. 
It's confusing to have to figure out what the right combination 
is(although with the echo's it helps but may not be as robust as 
it looks).