Errors compiling DSSS

[jerro]

>>> In any event, I'd ask how do the current build systems do it? 
>>> They read
>>> and parse through the source files to learn about dependencies
>>
>> No, they:
>>
>> 1. Run "$ dmd -o- -c main.d -deps=deps.txt" which will write 
>> out all dependencies of "main.d" to "deps.txt"
>
> Personally, I don't see how that would work using the current 
> form of the output. I tried it with Make to figure out 
> dependencies and the problem I immediately ran into was that 
> the output did not contain full path information for the 
> projects modules, and without that information, there was no 
> way to combine builds from related project under a separate 
> folder.

It's easy to work around that. It's certainly orders of magnitude 
easier than parsing the source files. Besides, parsing them isn't 
even enough because imports can be inside static if blocks or 
templates. You need pretty much an entire D frontend to correctly 
find dependencies from source files.