build system

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-10-26 18:01, jsternberg wrote:
> 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?
>
> Take a look at Cabal and ghc-pkg/ghc --make from Haskell. I've been thinking about starting to put together something like this, but I haven't found the motivation to do it. This type of package management and build integration would go a long way to making D less decentralized.
>
> One thing that would be needed to complete such a system is proper support for linking shared libraries (at least on Linux).
>
> There are a bunch of things the build system could do that would make development in D much easier.
>
> If you're interested in doing this, you should contact me on the IRC channel.

I'm working on a package manager:

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit/wiki/Orbit-Package-Manager-for-D
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orbit

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg