CMake support for D

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 11:40 +0000, King_DuckZ via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 17:30:15 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
> wrote:
> > Does CMake recognise D in the enable_language command?
> > 
> > If not is there a workaround?
> > 
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Dibyendu
> 
> One year later, is there any progress on this? Now that gdc has 
> gained support for .so (it seems), lack of cmake support is the 
> only thing that is preventing me from adopting D. I agree that 
> cmake is not the prettiest thing out there, but I think there are 
> many good reasons for wanting it:

Does this do the job? 

https://github.com/dcarp/cmake-d

> 1) As already said, it's needed for CLion

I wish CLion would support Meson.

Meson can build D stuff out of the box.

> 2) Many programmers, including myself, are already familiar with 
> its syntax - pretty or not, learning a new tool is extra work

Which can actually be a good thing, learning is something we should all
be doing all the time.

> 3) As far as I know, you can't mix C++ and D with dub

I'm having difficulty getting Dub to compile D and clean up afterwards.
:-(

> 4) I could just drop D code in my pre-existing C++ projects 
> without much effort on the build system

I was going to try moving Me TV from C++ to D, but the path of least
resistance is to just continue with it in C++ and put all the C++17
stuff in. 

> I hope to hear some promising news on this side!


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