Tango Jake or other build system for Linux

[Robert Clipsham]

Michal Minich wrote:
> I would like to compile programs on Linux using LDC and Tango using 
> similar tool as is bundled with Windows version of Tango - jake.exe. This 
> build tool is not included in Linux version of Tango and I'm not able to 
> find it's source code anywhere.
> 
> Is there any tool for Linux that can parse imports of files and invoke 
> compiler with all project files? (And preferably one which does not 
> require any configuration, except choosing compiler).
> 
> I'm also curious why the jake.exe is not available for Linux and why it 
> does not have available source code.
> 
> Thanks.

I'd strongly recommend xfbuild, it's actively developed, and can be over 
twice as fast as rebuild. http://wiki.team0xf.com/index.php?n=Tools.XfBuild

It will be even better when it eventually gets support for config files 
and implicit file names (coming soon I believe). If you intend to use 
dmd then it will require a patch, ldc already has this applied though.