build system

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Oct 26 11:45:52 PDT 2011


On 2011-10-26 16:27, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:26:56 +0400, 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?
>
> Do you know about rdmd and pragma(lib,...) ?

RDMD can only build binaries and... well, that's about it.

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/Jacob Carlborg


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