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

[Seb]

On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 16:46:56 UTC, 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 also add a simple dub.sdl to your local files and then 
use `dub add-local` to add the package to your dub environment.
Dub will only rebuild the dependency on your local files if they 
changed (or you use a different compiler / build settings).