Best build tool for D projects

[Chris Molozian]

Thanks for the link to the project, I'll try it out. It's a shame 
there's no documentation for CDC but the Yage project is considerably 
more complex than my needs from a build tool, it's build script will be 
useful to read.

On 13/05/11 21:11, Eric Poggel (JoeCoder) wrote:
> On 5/13/2011 1:38 PM, Chris Molozian wrote:
>> After all this preamble I guess what I'm asking is... what (if any)
>> cross-platform build tools does everyone use with their D projects? Any
>> feedback on experiences with any of the build tools I've mentioned is
>> also greatly appreciated. If you can suggest any alternatives, please
>> do.
>
> I'm certainly biased because I wrote it, but I use cdc for all of my D
> building.  At one point it was working with dmd1, dmd2, gdc1, and ldc
> on windows and linux (I don't own a mac) with tango or phobos.  But
> it's been a while since I've tested it.
>
> http://dsource.org/projects/cdc
>
> It accepts the same arguments and works the same as dmd except it also
> accepts folder names for arguments, compiling in all .d files it finds
> there.  And it's a single file, making it script friendly.  You can do
> something like this:
>
> dmd -run cdc.d project_folder -of../bin/myproject.exe
>
> cdc.d also has a nicely organized api for easily creating your own
> build script.  I use this with Yage for building derelict into a lib
> in order to reduce compilation time.  See the main function in this
> file.  The rest is unmodified from the cdc project:
>
> http://dsource.org/projects/yage/browser/trunk/build/buildyage.d
>
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