What would be the best way to compile a project with GDC?

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:46:05 +0200
schrieb "Gary Willoughby" <dev at nomad.so>:

> I've just finished a project in D and have been using rdmd to 
> compile during testing. While this is nice, i now want to try 
> other compilers to see if i get any speed gains.
> 
> Because i use rdmd it takes care of passing everything to dmd. 
> Now i want to try GDC and i need to pass the files in the correct 
> order for compilation. I've first tried to write a bash script 
> with all the files listed correctly and passed all the necessary 
> flags to dmd but i can never get the order of the files correct.
> 
> There must be a simpler way to pass these files to dmd in the 
> right order? rdmd does it somehow.
> 
> Any ideas? How do you handle compiling projects with 50+ source 
> files?

Doesn't rdmd have a verbose flag or something to dump the executed
commands? Then you could just copy and paste it from there. You could
also try to make rdmd work with gdc but I think there was some problem
with rdmd and gdc.