.bat file to help compile easier - dmd/build

[Denis Koroskin]

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:44:05 +0300, Tim M <a at b.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:40:03 +1300, John Reimer  
> <terminal.node at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Don,
>>
>>> Tim M wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:17 +1300, Michael P.
>>>> <baseball.mjp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I
>>>>> use build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my
>>>>> progress:
>>>>>  build mario alleg.lib
>>>>>  Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario
>>>>> wrong every so often, and I generally want to execute it after,
>>>>> assuming there is not compiler errors, it takes time.
>>>>> In a .bat file right now, I have this:
>>>>> build mario alleg.lib
>>>>> mario
>>>>> But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
>>>>> Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if
>>>>> there isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
>>>>> DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04
>>>> I thought everyone used dsss with d now.
>>>> http://dsource.org/projects/dsss.
>>>>
>>> No way! On Windows, bud is much better. dsss can't build dlls, for
>>> example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around
>>> the flawed concept that you have a small number of build
>>> configurations.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, I think bud is still quite good on windows (and faster than dsss),  
>> even though I don't use it.  But there's no replacing dsss on linux at  
>> the moment. It's nice to have the cross-platform option of dsss on  
>> win32 too.
>>
>> That said, if bud worked (easily) on linux, I might actually go back to  
>> using it again, since dsss doesn't seem to be going anywhere and recent  
>> releases have been getting slower and bulkier (possibly due to the  
>> combined effect of recent dmd releases). :-(
>>
>> -JJR
>>
>>
>
> Could you both explain a bit more about this as dsss says it is based on  
> rebuild and rebuild is based on bud. So I though that dsss > rebuild >  
> bud.

Don't confuse 'build' (which is a second name of bud) and 'rebuild' (part of dsss). They are unrelated.