Using a betterC dub package in ordinary D

[Ferhat Kurtulmuş]

On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 20:19:59 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 18:28:36 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 15:40:12 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When I use earcutd [1] in an ordinary D project, I get a link 
>>> error for the __D7earcutd12__ModuleInfoZ symbol.
> [...]
>
>> Dear Bastiaan,
>>
>> I am not an expert in dub system, but I have just pushed a 
>> modification in dub.json. I am not sure if it solves your 
>> problem. My modification is
>>
>>     "configurations": [
>>         {
>>             "name": "default",
>>             "targetType": "library"
>>         },
>>         {
>>             "name": "betterC",
>>             "targetType": "library",
>>             "dflags": ["-betterC"]
>>         }
>>     ]
>>
>> now client projects must explicitly pass the subConfiguration 
>> parameter to compile it with betterC.
>
> Much appreciated Ferhat! This works like a charm. I am kind of 
> surprised that it does, as I expected dvector to need the same 
> treatment. Excellent support by the way, thanks!
>
> Off topick, the original js implementation is documented to not 
> generate results that are guaranteed to be correct. I could not 
> find information on what the conditions are that cause 
> deviations, and how large these then can be. Do you have an 
> idea about this or experience with accuracy of the algorithm? I 
> am looking into whether earcutd can replace GLU tesselation. We 
> use the result for engineering purposes (not only 
> visualisation) and correctness is important to us.
>
> Thanks!
> Bastiaan.

Sorry, I don't have any information regarding the correctness of 
the algorithm. I just ported it doing cpp to d translations. My 
only usage of it for my hobby game[1]. However, it would be nice 
if you have another usage area to test it. I am using it with a 
similar purpose of glu Tessa lation in the game (I guess it is 
so, I am a beginner with opengl)

1: https://github.com/aferust/drawee