dmd doesn't work, rdmd --build-only does

[Ben Normoyle]

Thanks for the quick response! I personally would like to have 
that as an option for dmd as well, but if rdmd --build-only 
works, I'll stick to that. Thanks again.


On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 18:00:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> "Ben Normoyle" <bnormoyle at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:oudhxtazmxlequxpunzw at forum.dlang.org...
>>
>> I've seen this in a lot of places, and the only fix I've heard 
>> of consistently is to give dmd all of your source files when 
>> you compile.
>>
>
> dmd only compiles the files you give it.
>
>> However, when I run rdmd --build-only, it both finds test.d 
>> and produces a valid executable.
>>
>> My questions are these:
>> 1) Why does rdmd --build-only work when dmd doesn't? Does it 
>> implicitly pass both to the dmd compiler when it finds that 
>> test2 is dependent on test?
>
> Yes.
>
>> 2) Is there some way to have dmd emulate this behavior of rdmd,
>
> I hope so. Some people would like to see dmd start doing this, 
> at least as
> an option. I don't know what Walter thinks of that though.
>
>> or would it be valid to build my executable with rdmd 
>> --build-only?
>>
>
> Certainly. That's what I normally do.