Is there a GDC solution that can substitute rdmd ? Something like #!/usr/bin/gdc

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Thu, 27 Jun 2019 17:11:36 +0000 schrieb wjoe:

> Hi,
> 
> since D is now a GCC built-in D appears as a nice replacement for shell
> scripts.
> 
> I'm *not* looking for a dub solution as dub is something that needs to
> be installed.
> 
> A web search found a wrapper script for GCC which imitates rdmd for C
> but something like that still isn't out of the box experience.
> 
> So, is there a GDC solution that can substitute rdmd ?
> 
> Something like:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/gdc
> 
> int main()
> {
> //...
> }

Shouldn't rdmd somehow work with other compilers as well? Maybe you'll 
also need gdmd though, so that rdmd calls gdmd which then calls gdc. But 
I think more recent dmd versions also support #!/bin/dmd without rdmd, so 
maybe our gdmd should also support #!/bin/gdmd usage.

Neither gdmd nor rdmd are shipped with gdc though in most distributions, 
so none of these solutions are out-of-the-box. I think we need to make 
sure that gdmd gets cleaned up and packaged by all linux distributions. 
Iit will likely still be in a different package in most linux 
distributions though.

-- 
Johannes