Removing Meson as way of building dcd, d-scanner, etc

[Antonio Corbi]

On Friday, 7 December 2018 at 04:59:32 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:54:48 +0000, Basile B. wrote:
>> Do you use it ? Is it useful ?
>
> I would consider touching Meson at all if it could fetch 
> dependencies. But it can't, which sucks.
>
> Though I'm amused to note that its documentation uses one of my 
> libraries in an example.

Hi Neia,

I began playing with meson (v 0.48.2) the other day (Terminix 
example has been very useful) and it seems to fetch and compile 
dependencies via dub.

On the other hand my pet-project compile times have downloaded 
from approx. 1m 10s. build time with dub to approx. 50s. build 
time with meson.

I.e. I declare dependencies to fetch with dub in meson.build like 
this:

################
# Dependencies #
################
gtkd_dep = dependency('gtk-d:gtkd', version: '>=3.8.4', method: 
'dub')
xlib_dep = dependency('x11')

And use them like this:

dgtalib = static_library('dgtalib',
                          dgtalib_sources,
                          include_directories: sources_dir,
                          dependencies : [gtkd_dep, xlib_dep])
Hope this helps
Antonio