GNU Make fork with D support

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 23 April 2021 at 12:34:09 UTC, Brian wrote:
> So I went ahead and added D support to GNU Make: 
> https://github.com/ibara/gmake-d

It looks like it doesn't handle inter-module dependencies yet.

You might be interested in looking at `rdmd`'s `--makedepend` and 
`--makedepfile` switches. These output a module dependency graph 
in a format that can be included into a makefile, thus allowing 
safe and correct rebuilds of D programs.

However, generally, single-object compilation doesn't scale very 
well. This area has been explored quite thoroughly over the past 
two decades, and I think the best middle ground is that which Dub 
uses: build things one package at a time, and then link them 
together. Issues with which object files which template 
instantiations go into, and the quality of generated `.di` files, 
have been the obstacles in significantly improving the building 
of D programs, and I don't think sufficient progress has occurred 
there lately either.