new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul.

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 09:45:19 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
> Abstract:
> This DIP seeks to improve dmd and rdmd's command line flags, to 
> make it
> more self-consistent and consistent with other tools (including 
> other D
> compilers), more expandable, avoid existing corner cases, and 
> better
> interact with other tools such as rdmd. It also proposes new 
> flags and
> proposes a simple deprecation path to follow.
>
> Link:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP41

Looks good. But I would add one more. I'd like a dmd-specific 
flag for specifying the library path. Of course, on posix systems 
it's '-L-L/some/path', but I never can remember the format for 
OPTLINK (it involves a '+') and don't know offhand what it is for 
VS. In my build scripts, I just keep my libs local to the project 
tree and pass the full path of each library in order to avoid the 
hassle of trying to accommodate each possible linker. I'd love a 
new flag that would allow passing the libpath to DMD and let it 
handle putting it in the appropriate format for the current 
linker.