using dub to compile plugins

[Andre Pany]

On Wednesday, 19 December 2018 at 12:57:14 UTC, Codifies wrote:
> I am currently using this dub.sdl
>
> name        "runz80"
> targetType  "executable"
> lflags      "libz80/libz80.a"
>
> however I will be creating a number of plugins, each plugin 
> will consist of a single source file, I'd like the plugin 
> source directory to be separate from main source directory and 
> compile the plugins (.so) to a (binary) plugins directory
>
> (the plugins will be dynamically loaded at runtime - I've 
> previously done this in C so I don't anticipate any particular 
> issues - famous last words!)
>
> I could do this with a few simple rules in a Makefile, but I 
> have no clue how to achieve this using dub.
>
> can someone show me a concrete example of doing this ? Ideally 
> just dropping a new source file into the plugins source folder 
> should produce a new .so the next time dub is run, without 
> having to explicitly add each plugin to the dub file...

You can use dub sub packages. Each plugin will be a dub package 
with its own dub descriptor (sdl) file.
For your main dub sdl you set targetType to None.

Kind regards
Andre