• Andrew Gough (23/23) Mar 19 2012 All,
• Gour (21/26) Mar 21 2012 On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:57:50 +1100
• Andrew Gough (17/51) Mar 21 2012 Mostly, yes. The internals of premake are completely Lua - on the

Andrew Gough <andrew goughy.org> writes:

All,

I just wanted to post a note here that I have added support for D(2) to
premake (http://industriousone.com/premake).

The fork is available on Bitbucket
(https://bitbucket.org/goughy/premake-dev-d/overview) and I would
really appreciate feedback if it's of interest to the community.

I have one known issue at the moment (which I'm working on as time
permits) which is that addressing sibling projects for linking seems to
have issues under some configurations.

I believe this to be a mismatch between, for example, GCC and DMD where
GCC allows the definition of independent output directories for targets
(libraries) and object files, where DMD does not.  Hopefully it should
still work for you.

The fork supports DMD, GDC, and LDC - but only for D2, and currently
only for (g)make. If anyone would like to add support for other
toolchains (MSVC/VisualD, Code::Blocks etc) that would be fantastic.

I have successfully built my own projects and
druntime/phobos with it in the past, so I know it can work.

Cheers.

-- 
Andrew Gough
M: 0408 596 656
andrew goughy.org

Gour <gour atmarama.net> writes:

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:57:50 +1100
Andrew Gough <andrew goughy.org> wrote:

Hello Andrew,

 The fork supports DMD, GDC, and LDC - but only for D2, and currently
 only for (g)make. If anyone would like to add support for other
 toolchains (MSVC/VisualD, Code::Blocks etc) that would be fantastic.

I'm very happy seeing the prospect of having D support in premake which
looks very clean and being of declarative nature.

Now I wonder how difficult is to add support for  other toolchains and
asked about it on the mailing list where Jason replied with: "I did try

more data points I have to work with, the easier it will be to identify
the areas that need more abstraction (and what it should look like)."

Does adding such support involve only Lua skills?

 I have successfully built my own projects and druntime/phobos with it
 in the past, so I know it can work.

I plan to start playing with it as soon as I finish some other non-D
related tasks.

Thank you for working on it.


Sincerely,
Gour


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Andrew Gough <andrew goughy.org> writes:

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:07:34 +0100
Gour <gour atmarama.net> wrote:

 On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:57:50 +1100
 Andrew Gough <andrew goughy.org> wrote:
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 Hello Andrew,
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 The fork supports DMD, GDC, and LDC - but only for D2, and currently
 only for (g)make. If anyone would like to add support for other
 toolchains (MSVC/VisualD, Code::Blocks etc) that would be fantastic.

=20
 I'm very happy seeing the prospect of having D support in premake
 which looks very clean and being of declarative nature.
=20
 Now I wonder how difficult is to add support for  other toolchains and
 asked about it on the mailing list where Jason replied with: "I did

 The more data points I have to work with, the easier it will be to
 identify the areas that need more abstraction (and what it should
 look like)."
=20
 Does adding such support involve only Lua skills?

Mostly, yes.  The internals of premake are completely Lua - on the
positive side, Lua is really easy (syntactically, anyway).

The internal abstractions are quite good, and there is a strong
decoupling between the internals data structures for project
configurations, and the final build artefact generation (ie. the
Makefile or VS solution etc).  This means it should be relatively easy
to add other toolchain support - you just need to generate a valid
project/solution from the various configurations.
'src/actions/make/make_d.lua' creates the D Makefiles as a starting
point, and there are other toolchain examples for VS, Code::Blocks etc


=20
 I have successfully built my own projects and druntime/phobos with
 it in the past, so I know it can work.

=20
 I plan to start playing with it as soon as I finish some other non-D
 related tasks.
=20
 Thank you for working on it.
=20
=20
 Sincerely,
 Gour
=20
=20

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Andrew Gough
M: 0408 596 656
andrew goughy.org