GNU Make fork with D support

[Brian]

On Friday, 23 April 2021 at 22:48:56 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Friday, 23 April 2021 at 12:34:09 UTC, Brian wrote:
>> So I went ahead and added D support to GNU Make: 
>> https://github.com/ibara/gmake-d
>
> It looks like it doesn't handle inter-module dependencies yet.
>

True. It only handles the simple case right now.

> You might be interested in looking at `rdmd`'s `--makedepend` 
> and `--makedepfile` switches. These output a module dependency 
> graph in a format that can be included into a makefile, thus 
> allowing safe and correct rebuilds of D programs.
>

This is good to know.

> However, generally, single-object compilation doesn't scale 
> very well. This area has been explored quite thoroughly over 
> the past two decades, and I think the best middle ground is 
> that which Dub uses: build things one package at a time, and 
> then link them together. Issues with which object files which 
> template instantiations go into, and the quality of generated 
> `.di` files, have been the obstacles in significantly improving 
> the building of D programs, and I don't think sufficient 
> progress has occurred there lately either.

I agree with you here. But I also generally think that we need to 
"meet people where they are" and not where we want them to be.

~Brian