noobie question, dub or meson?

James Blachly james.blachly at gmail.com
Sat Mar 20 18:33:20 UTC 2021


On 3/19/21 4:04 AM, Chris Piker wrote:
> 
> Has there ever been talk of adding C source code support to dub, or is 
> that a forbidden topic?  I know if dub supported C, all my C libs and 
> all my necessary dependencies (openssl, expat, etc.) would have dub.json 
> files before the weekend was over.
> 

Chris: for one of my (D) libraries that also links in an .o file that's 
built from C source, I have a makefile for the C and call `make` during 
the dub build process.

It is not incredibly sophisticated, but works well for us. Here is the 
dubfile with `preBuildCommands`:

https://github.com/blachlylab/intervaltree/blob/master/dub.json

Kind regards


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