Constructing source files in Dub before build [was Feedback on Átila's Vision for D]

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2019-10-17 at 20:23 +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2019-10-17 18:46, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> >  From what I can see both Cargo and Dub fail on updating generated source
> > files. An example: I generate a D module for Fontconfig library using
> > DStep,
> > but it seems SCons is the only tool of Dub, Cargo, Meson, etc. that easily
> > copes with this build precursor. But I may be missing something.
> Perhaps the `extraDependencyFiles` [1] field can help?
> 
> [1] 
> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.085.0.html#extraDependencyFiles-attribute-added

Jacob,

Thanks I'll take a look at that.

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