D and SCons

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/3/17 12:39 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 12:05:48AM +0200, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 5/2/17 2:20 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Prompted by Bill Deegan (*), I have started a SCons wiki page on D
>>> support. Even if you do not actually use SCons for D code, if you
>>> are interested in D you are interested in this page as it is another
>>> marketing vector for D.
>>>
>>
>> I've come to like SCons for my C++ projects. Way more so than say
>> CMake.  It would be awesome to have full-fledged support for D there
>> esp. in mixed C++ with D setup.
> [...]
>
> I've been using SCons for many years now for both C/C++ and D projects,
> and have been a happy camper.
>
> However, I have to confess that I found Russel's D tooling (the last
> time I tried it anyway, which was a while back) not quite up to what I'd
> like it to do.

Could you elaborate on the limitations?

> As a result, in my recent projects I've resorted simply
> to:
>
> 	env = Environment(DMD = '/path/to/dmd', DMDFLAGS = [ ... ])
> 	env.Command('myprogram', Split("""
> 			myprogram.d
> 			module1.d
> 			module2.d
> 		"""),
> 		"$DMD $DMDFLAGS -of$TARGET $SOURCES"
> 	)ugh
>

Been doing just that as well. Find it less then ideal though.

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Dmitry Olshansky