Can I use dub to build multiple app.d files?

[Selim]

On Tuesday, 21 April 2020 at 17:50:03 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 April 2020 at 16:14:54 UTC, Selim wrote:
>> Hi there. I have been using dub for a while now -maybe 12 
>> months- but I haven't been able to figure out if you can build 
>> multiple app.d files with it. Is it possible to use dub run 
>> command to build multiple executables in one shot?
>>
>> Maybe the question is weird, because dub might not be the tool 
>> to do that sort of thing. In that case, I would appreciate 
>> pointers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Selim
>
> Hi Selim,
>
> Yes it is supported. In dub.json you set targetType of your 
> main dub package to none and add several sub packages (with 
> targetType executable).
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

Thanks again for the fast reply, Andre! I used your answer as a 
guide and found about sub packages example in [1]. And used the 
command line example from stack overflow [2]: dub run 
mainPackageName:<subPackageName>. It got me what I wanted.

S


[1] https://dub.pm/package-format-sdl.html#target-types
[2] 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35319543/how-to-add-and-run-subpackages-in-dub