Have Win DMD use gmake instead of a separate DMMake makefile?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:55:12AM +0200, Joakim wrote:
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> Personally, I like the D-based build system idea.  Distribute
> dmd/phobos with a D-based build tool like dub, which has been
> compiled ahead of time for each supported platform and will compile
> D for you, if you want.  Of course, this means that you'll still
> need to maintain makefiles on the D build machines that will build
> dub for the D maintainers to distribute, but it isolates all the
> complexity of makefiles from end users, so they don't have to touch
> any of that stuff.  Whether that ease of use is worth the extra
> effort, I don't know.

There's no need to maintain any makefiles once the D build tool is
usable. As long as you have a working binary of dmd that can compile the
tool, that's good enough.


T

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