[SAOC 2024] - Leverage dmd as a library in D-Scanner in order to extend its functionality - Weekly Update 11

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 02/12/2024 2:28 PM, Vladiwostok wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm still waiting for Razvan to finish reviewing last week's PR before 
> doing anything else in that area.
> 
> In the meantime, I have started hacking around trying to enable full 
> semantic analysis in D-Scanner. There is one impediment I've discovered 
> - before running full semantic, DMD requires a list of versions to compile.
> 
> Since users can define custom versions, and some versions can be 
> mutually exclusive, I was thinking with Razvan that we should let the 
> user specify the version list(s).
> 
> I'm curious to see if there are any thoughts about this.

Because any flag can set versions, especially targets, your best bet is 
to accept all CLI flags that (l/g)dmd does.

That way you can throw your compile command directly at it, and not 
worry about errors.