rdmd problem

[Jonathan Marler]

On Monday, 1 April 2019 at 11:10:06 UTC, Comrad wrote:
> I have a strange problem with rdmd:
>> cat test.d
> #!/usr/bin/env rdmd -version=test
> import std.stdio;
> void main()
> {
>     writeln("Hello, world with automated script running!");
> }
>
> --------------------
> This hangs, but if I remove compile options it does work. 
> Overall it doesn't work with any compiler options.
>
>> dmd --version
> DMD64 D Compiler v2.085.0
> Copyright (C) 1999-2019 by The D Language Foundation, All 
> Rights Reserved written by Walter Bright
>
>> lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
> Release:        14.04
> Codename:       trusty
>
>> gcc --version
> gcc (Ubuntu 4.9.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1) 4.9.4
> Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  
> There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

When I rewrote rdmd I read that some OS's don't support more than 
one argument on the shebang line, so I added support for "Source 
Compiler Directives".

#!/usr/bin/env rund
//!version test
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
     writeln("Hello, world with automated script running!");
}


If you use rdmd quite a bit, you might want to consider switching 
to rund:

https://github.com/dragon-lang/rund

It runs about twice as fast because it only needs to run the 
compiler once instead of twice like rdmd does. I also fixed a 
fair number of bugs with rdmd when I rewrote it.  And if you find 
any issues with it, please let me know and I'll quickly make sure 
to get them fixed.