What's the proper way to add a local file dependence to dub?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2018-03-04 17:46, Marc wrote:
> then copy it to sources folder?
>
> let's say I have a small library folder at C:\mylibrary\D where I want
> to use dir.d from it. How do I add that file dependence to dub? But I do
> not want to that file be passed directly to dmd, I want to that file be
> copied to application's source folder (so it's easy to distribuite, with
> the dependences together as possible) then compiled. So, what I want to
> some extension is dub work with loca files.
> Is this possible to do solely with dub? I know I can easily write a
> script to run before dub which copies the dependence files from
> C:\mylibrary to application's source but I'm looking for a more elegant
>   approach as possible; I'm afraid of rewriting a makefile-like soon (I
> find cmake/make/makefiles just ugly).

You can use "preGenerateCommands" or "preBuildCommands" to run arbitrary 
commands before Dub builds the project [1]. Alternativly you can use the 
"import" expression [2], together with the "stringImportPaths" Dub build 
setting. The "import" expression will embed the file into the executable 
as a string literal.

[1] https://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=sdl#build-settings
[2] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions

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/Jacob Carlborg