Include .def definition file information for the linker into a .d source file

[Imperatorn]

On Thursday, 25 November 2021 at 09:47:50 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 November 2021 at 09:00:52 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>
>> What most ppl do in that case is to just provide a script, for 
>> example build.cmd that just does what it needs. The user just 
>> clicks the script and it does everything for them.
>
> "How can I make it so that I don't need an extra file written 
> in another language?"
> "Just add yet another file written in yet another language".
>
> Nice going there :)
>
> Build scripts never have been scalable. A good language shall 
> only require a compiler and source file(s). No extra voodoo 
> mumbojumbo. This is why we have all those pragmas and the -i 
> switch.

Scalable or not it's a pretty common pattern. The build script is 
modular.

I wouldn't call the linker "mumbojumbo". Voodo maybe, yes.