Please integrate build framework into the compiler

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Mar 21 21:18:03 PDT 2009


grauzone wrote:
> My rdmd doesn't know --chatty. Probably the zip file for dmd 1.041 
> contains an outdated, buggy version. Where can I find the up-to-date 
> source code?

Hold off on that for now.

> Another question, rdmd just calls dmd, right? How does it scan for 
> dependencies, or is this step actually done by dmd itself?

rdmd invokes dmd -v to get deps. It's a interesting idea to add a 
compilation mode to rdmd that asks dmd to generate headers and diff them 
against the old headers. That way we can implement incremental rebuilds 
without changing the compiler.

Andrei



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