dmdz

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> To be frank, I even think you shouldn't worry at all about "module". 
> Just extract the blessed thing with caching and call it a day. I was 
> also thinking of simplifying options etc. by requiring a file 
> "dmdflags.txt" in the archive and then do this when you run dmd:
> 
> dmd `cat dmdflags.txt` stuff morestuff andsomemorestuff

dmd will already read switches out of a file:

    dmd @cmdfile ...

So there's no need to parse the command file or do any shell expansion on it. 
Just pass it, and precede it with an @.