Required to link windows header modules (?)

[Bruno Medeiros]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>
>> Then what you meant about Build "isn't able to detect if a module is a 
>> "header" module" ?
> 
> It isn't able to by itself--you have to tell it.  And while I'm not 
> certain DMD could do better, I'd like to believe so.  That was my only 
> point.  That in the long term it may be more useful to have such 
> features built directly into the compiler.  In my brief experience with 
> Build it's a darn sight better than generating C-style libraries.  And I 
> suspect it will get around the template linking issues I've run into to 
> boot.
> 
> 
> Sean

How could Build, or *any* tool at all, know by itself if a D file is to 
be compiled or not? I don't think it's possible, unless the file 
extension is ".di".

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