build system

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

That's the problem - no working build tool exists for D.
Why don't you like the idea of integrating build information in source
code? I mean, that information does not change for a given source
file.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> On 2011-10-26 12:26, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>
>> I had a few thoughts about integrating build awareness into DMD.
>> It would be really cool to add a flag to DMD to make it compile and
>> link in all import-referenced modules.
>> Also, it would be awesome to store basic build information in modules
>> themselves in the form of special comments (much like documentation
>> comments), where one could specify external build dependencies, output
>> type, etc.
>> There would be no need for makefiles and extra build systems. You'd
>> just feed an arbitrary module to the compiler and the compiler would
>> build the target, to which that module belongs (bu parsing build
>> comments and package hierarchies).
>> Wouldn't this be a good thing to have?
>
> Sounds horrible to have a build script in comments in the source code. I
> think the right approach is to have a separate build tool, with a proper DSL
> built on an existing language, e.g. Ruby, D, something else.
>
> There are already a couple of build tools available:
>
> DSSS - D1 only, not maintained any more
> xfbuild - Probably not maintained any more. No build script
> rdmd - Cannot build libraries, no build script, cannot do much besides from
> building executables
>
> I've been working on a build tool, https://bitbucket.org/doob/dake . I've
> started rewriting the tool in D, been a while since I worked on it.
> Currently it's not a prioritized project for me.
>
> I also know others are working on built tools for D.
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>