Makefiles and dub

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 11/4/22 7:19 PM, Anonymouse wrote:
> [#20699](https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20699) must be 
> non-trivial to fix, so I'm exploring makefiles. If possible I'd like to 
> keep dub for dependency management though, just not for actual compilation.
> 
> Is it at all possible (or even desireable) to construct a makefile that 
> builds dependencies from outside of the source tree (namely 
> `$HOME/.dub/packages/package_with_unknown_version-1.2.[0-9]+/`)?
> 
> Does anyone have an example `Makefile` I could dissect?
> 
> Thanks.

`dub describe` can give you probably enough information to build a makefile.

And I believe it should do all the dependency fetching when you call it.

-Steve