dmd doesn't work, rdmd --build-only does

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Ben Normoyle" <bnormoyle at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:oudhxtazmxlequxpunzw at forum.dlang.org...
>
> I've seen this in a lot of places, and the only fix I've heard of 
> consistently is to give dmd all of your source files when you compile.
>

dmd only compiles the files you give it.

> However, when I run rdmd --build-only, it both finds test.d and produces a 
> valid executable.
>
> My questions are these:
> 1) Why does rdmd --build-only work when dmd doesn't? Does it implicitly 
> pass both to the dmd compiler when it finds that test2 is dependent on 
> test?

Yes.

> 2) Is there some way to have dmd emulate this behavior of rdmd,

I hope so. Some people would like to see dmd start doing this, at least as 
an option. I don't know what Walter thinks of that though.

> or would it be valid to build my executable with rdmd --build-only?
>

Certainly. That's what I normally do.