DUB doesn't seem to respect my config, am I doing something wrong?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Saturday, 22 May 2021 at 20:28:56 UTC, rempas wrote:
>
> I'm compiling using `dub --config=development` and I'm getting 
> the following line: `Performing "debug" build using 
> /usr/bin/dmd for x86_64`. The same exactly happens when I'm 
> trying to do the release config. If I disable the `targetType` 
> option, it seems that it's creating a library and I can also 
> manually change the compiler and the build-type so I don't know 
> what's going on....

Hello,

DUB has two separate concepts:

     - buildTypes: default ones are debug, release, release-debug, 
release-nobounds
       They
       You can define custom buildTypes.
       Selected with -b
       https://dub.pm/package-format-json.html#build-types
       By default, "debug" build type.


     - configurations are more often used to define software 
options
       You can define custom configurations.
       Selected with -c
       By default the first one in your file is taken, else it's a 
default configuration.

People use configurations to define example programs or platform 
builds (probably becase buildTypes are limited), but they are 
primarily intended for enabling or disabling features in software.