Simple I know, but could use some help compiling with make

[Roderick Gibson]

On 9/29/2011 2:15 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Nick Sabalausky"<a at a.a>  wrote in message
> news:j62msu$205t$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> "Roderick Gibson"<kniteli at gmail.com>  wrote in message
>> news:j62d4i$1d8l$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> It's my first foray into the arcana of makefiles and command line
>>> compiling.
>>>
>>> My makefile looks like this:
>>>
>>> IMPORT = -IC:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\import
>>> LIB_PATHS = -LC:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\lib
>>> LIB_INCLUDES = DerelictSDL.lib DerelictGL.lib DerelictUtil.lib
>>>
>>> all:
>>> dmd src/main.d src/display.d src/renderdata.d src/vector2d.d\
>>> $(IMPORT) $(LIB_PATHS) $(LIB_INCLUDES)
>>>
>>> I think I just don't know how to give the compiler what it wants. I can
>>> build it manually by simply including the full paths to each of those
>>> libraries, but I'd rather avoid having to do that unless necessary. Is
>>> there something I'm just missing?
>>
>> build.bat:
>> @echo off
>> rdmd --build-only -ofmyApp -IC:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\import -L+C:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\lib\
>> DerelictSDL.lib DerelictGL.lib DerelictUtil.lib DerelictGLU.lib src/main.d
>>
>> Note:
>>
>> 1. After the "@echo off", that's supposed to be one line.
>>
>> 2. "rdmd" instead of "dmd"
>>
>> 3. Only one ".d" file is given: The one with main()
>>
>> 4. The ".d" file is the *last* param.
>>
>
> Or to make it a little cleaner:
>
> @echo off
>
> IMPORT = -IC:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\import
> LIB_PATHS = -L+C:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\lib\
> LIB_INCLUDES = DerelictSDL.lib DerelictGL.lib DerelictUtil.lib
> DerelictGLU.lib
> EXE_NAME = myApp
>
> rdmd --build-only -of%EXE_NAME% %IMPORT% %LIB_PATHS% %LIB_INCLUDES%
> src/main.d
>
> Of course, you can use rdmd with make too, but I've never really liked
> dealing with make.
>
>

Very cool, thanks for going to all the trouble. It only takes the one 
souce file, does rdmd build out other files automatically?