Which tools do you miss in D?

[Manu]

On 28 January 2014 11:16, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28 January 2014 01:47, Atila Neves <atila.neves at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>  dub doesn't address my needs at all, but I've put crap loads of
>>> time/energy
>>> into the D extension for premake, which works well (
>>> https://bitbucket.org/premakeext), although for some reason has never
>>> really gotten any attention from the D community :(
>>>
>>
>> Never heard of the extension until now.
>>
>>
>>
>>> It generates cross-language build scripts (ie, C/C++ and D code all
>>> together in the same project) for make and many popular IDE's.
>>> I use it for large scale projects that involve C/C++ engine library, D
>>> front end code, and other ancillary libraries bolted on the side.
>>>
>>
>> That's cool, and I might make use of this when mixing D and C/C++. What
>> dub does do really well is just making any source package available. I wish
>> I had that plus the full features of a build system like CMake all under
>> one roof.
>
>
> premake does everything cmake does (that I care about), and also ticks
> some boxes (that I make heavy use of) that cmake lacks; like supporting
> games consoles and stuff like that.
> I've never been happy with cmake, but premake is fairly nice, and it's
> fully scriptable if it's idea of something is just not quite right.
>
> Only problem is, there's been heaps of development on premake, homing in
> on premake5, mainly in terms of extensibility. But it's not yet available
> as binary packages. My extensions for D and other IDE's and toolchains all
> work against the trunk premake5 code.
>

I should add, onthe plus side, premake is a single self-contained exe with
no runtime dependencies.
I typically build a binary, and just commit it to my project's bin/ folder,
and it just works, so others that want to build my projects don't have to
stuff around trying to build it.
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