• dan (9/9) Mar 21 2017 Is there some option for generating a dummy main with gdc?
• kinke (3/4) Mar 21 2017 Here:
• dan (5/9) Mar 21 2017 And so recent too, good grief, the way i searched must be really
• kinke (7/17) Mar 21 2017 You're welcome and don't worry, it was inappropriately in the

dan <dan.hitt gmail.com> writes:

Is there some option for generating a dummy main with gdc?

Alexandrescu's book (p 133) mentions a '--main', but that doesn't 
seem to work for gdc, and i can't find one from 'gdc --help'.

The --unittest option does work, although, for whatever reason, 
you cannot just stick 'void main( ) { }' inside a unittest { } 
block.  (Or you can, but you won't get even a warning about 
conflicting symbols, so i suppose the name 'main' gets mangled 
somehow in this context.)

I'm using debian stretch, and thanks in advance for any clues.

kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 19:17:53 UTC, dan wrote:
 Is there some option for generating a dummy main with gdc?

Here: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.974.1489320559.31550.digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com.

dan <dan.hitt gmail.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 21:36:39 UTC, kinke wrote:
 On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 19:17:53 UTC, dan wrote:
 Is there some option for generating a dummy main with gdc?

 Here: 
 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.974.1489320559.31550.digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com.

And so recent too, good grief, the way i searched must be really 
lousy.

Thanks very much for pointing thous out Kinke!

dan

kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 21:49:05 UTC, dan wrote:
 On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 21:36:39 UTC, kinke wrote:
 On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 19:17:53 UTC, dan wrote:
 Is there some option for generating a dummy main with gdc?

 Here: 
 http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.974.1489320559.31550.digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com.

 And so recent too, good grief, the way i searched must be 
 really lousy.

 Thanks very much for pointing thous out Kinke!

 dan

You're welcome and don't worry, it was inappropriately in the 
'Lean' forum. ;)
You might as well just create a temporary source file with `void 
main() {}`, compile it once and then always link in this object 
when compiling the unittests, e.g., `gdc --unittest foo.d 
~/main.o && ./foo`.