Use dmd as a frontend

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 18/06/2026 6:14 PM, MaxBlack_AUT wrote:
> Hello @all,
> 
> i am trying to get dmd as a frontend working, because i want to 
> implement a new type of lsp.
> No luck so far either via LLMs or web searches. I can use 'libparse' but 
> I saw the DConf video on the dmd as a lib video.
> 
> Does anybody have a very simple example 'dub.json' and 'main.d' with 
> extracting symbols from a D file, to see how I could get something 
> compiling at least?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Max

Something like this?

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/compiler/test/dub_package/retrieve_scope.d