Using DUB packages with Meson

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Wednesday, 12 April 2023 at 10:24:48 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> I'm going to guess that you need to use the version specifier 
> in the package name. Because I'm not seeing anything there to 
> handle it specifically.
>
> https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/mesonbuild/dependencies/dub.py
>
> i.e. ``dub build [<package>[@<version-spec>]] [<options...>]``
>
> So use ``package:sub at 1.0.2``.
>
> Also I just noticed meson doesn't support shared libraries from 
> dub, so something to keep in mind.

I'm getting closer. I'm stuck with this at the moment:

Found DUB: /home/d.olshanskiy/bin/dub (DUB version 1.31.1, built 
on Mar 12 2023)
ERROR: strand found but it wasn't compiled with ldc
Run-time dependency strand found: NO

src/meson.build:22:0: ERROR: Dependency "strand" not found

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Dmitry Olshansky