How to use the -I command line switch?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 01/03/2018 01:42 PM, Tony wrote:
 > On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 18:35:21 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 >> Working as expected... :)
 >>
 > What about the error message? If -I is only for DMD finding "import ..."
 > files, and not files on the command line, why does DMD list what was in
 > the -I "where to look for import directives" when saying that it can't
 > find a command-line file? It says that it can't locate my_module.d and
 > then lists the directory that my_module.d is in.

Yeah, there's definitely a problem there.

It's possible that the compiler is acting like this: Because there is 
already my_module.d on the command line, it assumes that main's 'import 
my_module' must mean that file. Because there is no such file in the 
local directory, it errors out by using a generic error message 
function, which does not explain the situation well.

I made that all up but I bet it's something like that. :)

Ali