Examples of dub use needed

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 19:00:56 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 15:48:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

>
> Suppose you need to link against a .so file that is in another 
> directory. How do you find out how to do that on this page:
> http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json
>
> But that's just one case. There are basically no examples at 
> all (and the ones that are there probably don't help). There's 
> not even a good explanation of what Dub is. Rust, on the other 
> hand, offers this: http://doc.crates.io/guide.html

If there's no dub option for it, then wouldn't you just pass it 
to the compiler in a dflags directive? That's basic compiler 
usage, is it not?

>
> This is not to criticize anyone's work. But it is to say that 
> there is no way Dub, with its current documentation, should be 
> distributed with DMD.

Then why not pitch in to help improving the documentation? If you 
think there should be something explaining how to find shared 
libraries in another directory and can't find it anywhere, you 
can go to the DUB issues page and report it, or ask in the DUB 
forums how to contribute. That's how things get better around 
here.