• Lynn Allan (7/7) Apr 05 2005 My impression is that DMC can rebuild the wxWidget library with the
• J C Calvarese (25/32) Apr 06 2005 Yes, I think this worked well for me:

"Lynn Allan" <l_d_allan adelphia.net> writes:

My impression is that DMC can rebuild the wxWidget library with the
right makefile.

Would it be feasible for DMC to be enhanced so it could input C++ code
and output 'something' (dll, obj's, lib, ?) that could be used by DMD?

I have no idea of what would be involved is this, or if this has been
discussed before, but this capability would seem to open up a lot of
resources.

J C Calvarese <jcc7 cox.net> writes:

Lynn Allan wrote:
 My impression is that DMC can rebuild the wxWidget library with the
 right makefile.

Yes, I think this worked well for me:

cd wxWidgets-2.5.3\build\msw
make -f makefile.dmc

(per the instructions in the wxd readme.txt)

 Would it be feasible for DMC to be enhanced so it could input C++ code
 and output 'something' (dll, obj's, lib, ?) that could be used by DMD?

There are probably tools out there that try to do such things. I think 
the limiting factor is the "intelligence" of the tool. Can it guess how 
to treat a certain file? It could get some lucky guesses, but I suspect 
complicated make processes are the reason for so many complicated 
makefiles out there.

I've heard that the Build tool does similar things for D code, but I 
think certain settings generally need to included as verioned D code for 
it to work as desired (http://www.dsource.org/projects/build/). I would 
expect that C code could have similar problems if the particular 
settings aren't included in the C code (perhaps hidden in #define's).

(I need to try out Build for myself because I've read so many good 
things about it, but I just haven't had a chance to write much D code 
recently.)

 I have no idea of what would be involved is this, or if this has been
 discussed before, but this capability would seem to open up a lot of
 resources.

Sure, it'd be a great thing. Maybe one of the tools on 
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ReferenceForTools already does 
some of this, such as A-A-P or Scons. Either one is supposed to be 
better than make (according to its fans).

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