SCons support for D

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premake supports D? I was planning to add D support to premake myself, but
that's wonderful news. I'll add support for VisualD if it is not already
done.
GDC is also important. Great news! :)

On 7 December 2011 21:56, Jens Mueller <jens.k.mueller at gmx.de> wrote:

> Andrew Gough wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:14:25 +0000
> > Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > SCons is a Python-based build tool to replace Make and much of the
> > > Autotools functionality.  It has D support as part of the core.  This
> > > support is though in need of development.
> > >
> > > The new Mercurial/BitBucket infrastructure for developing SCons
> > > (replacing the old Subversion/Tigris set up) is now in place, a new
> > > release 2.1.0 has been declared and everything is open for business
> > > leading to a 2.2.0 release.
> > >
> > > I got my changes to support DMD 2 into this release :-)
> > >
> > > However, support for GDC, LDC, etc. is almost certainly still sadly
> > > lacking, and indeed the support for DMD almost certainly needs a
> > > severe refactoring and most likely a rewrite.
> > >
> > > Rather than people having to work on a clone of SCons in order to work
> > > on the tool, I have created a separate Mercurial repository
> > > (https://bitbucket.org/russel/scons_dmd_new) as a development version
> > > of just the tool.  When a new version of this separate tool is
> > > declared I create a pull request for the SCons mainline to get the
> > > new version in the next version of SCons.
> > >
> > > Is anyone else other than me interested in using SCons as a build tool
> > > with D code?  If there is, perhaps we can collaborate in some way to
> > > progress SCons support for all the various realizations of D?
> > >
> >
> > I think the build tool question is in need of the same level of high
> > level design and support that Steve Teale is working on for
> > std.database/std.sql.
> >
> > It seems there is SCons support (python), CMake, Orbit (Ruby), DSSS
> > (D1 only?), xfbuild, dake, rdmd options - I've added preliminary D
> > support to premake.
>
> Where do I find your changes for premake?
>
> > Would it be a good idea to thrash out the arguments for/against a
> > particular tool, and build/support just one?  The community doesn't
> > seem big enough to be so fragmented.  Java has Ant, Scala has sbt  -
> > surely D should have a canonical build tool?
>
> I'm unsure whether D needs its own configuration/build tool. It
> definitely needs a package manager.
>
> For building there are different options but usually it's make. Most
> people (at least for sure on Unix variants) are using it. I think Scons
> does both building and configuring. Just want to say that you can have
> different tools for these jobs or single one.
> Jacob's build tool looks good but I wonder what are the major
> improvements over e.g. make (portability is an issue with make; maybe
> simplicity).
>
> For configuring there are some options and so far none of them is
> preferred by a majority. Different people weigh different aspects
> differently. But it seems people are moving away from configure scripts.
>
> As Russell already said, several build/configuration tools are used and
> there is no clear winner in general. So I think it's very nice that you
> have added support for D to premake. So we then have SCons (build and
> configuration), CMake (configuration and several build tools via
> generators), rdmd (can generate dependencies for Makefile), Jacob as a
> build tool and there are several others specifically for D and premake.
>
> I'm not sure about the state of each of these. But SCons and CMake work
> with dmd (both do configuration). premake is also configuration.
> Regarding build tools I wonder how important they are. make works fairly
> well.
>
> Jens
>
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