SCons support for D

[Jens Mueller]

Gour wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 23:31:10 +0100
> Jens Mueller <jens.k.mueller at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > The nice thing about premake is that it is build using Lua. So you
> > have a full language at your disposal. 
> 
> Heh, that much I could see quickly...Something like Scons/Waf...
> 
> > CMake's configuration language is not that nice or at least it takes
> > time to get used to it. 
> 
> Well, although it's considered ugly by many, it can build stuff like
> KDE which means: good-enough, right?

It is.

> > premake only concerns itself with configuring. Which I think is nice.
> > But it has nothing similar to CMake's find_package last time I
> > checked.
> 
> OK. I'll take a look, but Cmake seems to be really robust and supports
> *many* platforms.

CMake is robust and it works. premake has not that much support. But
their approach is nice. CMake is the better supported alternative,
currently.

> > > Anything like Cpack available for it?
> > 
> > As far as I know no.
> 
> Thanks...I still have to finish some web-stuff, then I'm going to tackle
> cmaked2...Asked on the mailing list about more details, but no
> reply...I'm not sure about testing suite which cmaked2 is supposed to
> pass.

I think it's the one that ships with CMake. If you run make test after
configuring there will be 215 tests executed.

Jens