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

[Roderick Gibson]

On 9/29/2011 2:39 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Roderick Gibson"<kniteli at gmail.com>  wrote in message
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>> On 9/29/2011 2:15 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Nick Sabalausky"<a at a.a>   wrote in message
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>>>> "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?
>
> What rdmd does is takes the file with "main()", figures out all the ".d"
> files needed, checks if any of them have been changed, and if so, it sends
> them all to dmd to be compiled. If you omit the "--build-only" it will also
> run the program you built. The full format for rdmd is:
>
> rdmd {params for dmd and rdmd} main.d {params for main.exe}
>
> So if you have:
>
> //main.d
> import std.stdio;
> void main(string[] args)
> {
>      writeln("Hello", args[1]);
> }
>
> Then you can do this:
>
>> rdmd main.d Joe
> Hello Joe
>
>>
>
> It's an awesome tool. You can run just "rdmd" by itself to see all it's
> options.
>
> Be aware though, rdmd has some issues if you're not using at least DMD
> 2.055.
>
>
>

Hmm, looks like it would be awesome, unfortunately it spits out a bunch 
of "previous definition different" errors on the linker, in relation to 
the libraries. Oh well, I seem to be able to get it working with dmd for 
now.