Conventions for installing third party libraries?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-06-06 18:56, Jonathan Sternberg wrote:
> I know for C/C++, include files are usually placed in <prefix>/include and
> libraries in <prefix>/lib. What's the convention for D files (as the module
> files would need to be given for imports and I'm assuming that you don't
> recompile the D files for every project).
> 
> Where are these files typically placed on a normal Linux installation?

I don't think that there _are_ any D libraries in a typical Linux 
installation. Some distros have dmd in their repositories, so then you get 
druntime and Phobos, but beyond that, I'm not aware of any D libraries in any 
distros. And where dmd and the standard libraries go is entirely up to the 
distro. They just have to make sure that the dmd.conf that they provide points 
to them. You can look at the deb and rpm packages on www.digitalmars.com to 
see where they put it.

But as for libraries beyond the standard ones, I believe that they typically 
get built by the people who use them. If the project in question is set up to 
be a library as opposed to just providing the soure files, then it may be that 
people build that library and then reuse it betwen projects, but that's 
entirely up to the people using them.

D isn't mainstream enough yet for Linux to really have a standard way of 
dealing with where to put its libraries and source files.

Personally, I don't even install dmd or Phobos on my system. I just set up my 
path to point to where I unzipped dmd to, and it works. I then have the code 
for each of my projects in my projects. But I don't currently use any 
libraries beyond druntime and Phobos.

- Jonathan M Davis