• =?UTF-8?B?Ikx1w61z?= Marques" (10/10) Jul 24 2013 I have some old D code and I wanted to improve its build system:
• Dicebot (5/16) Jul 24 2013 If code amount is relatively small (and building does not involve
• Jacob Carlborg (23/27) Jul 24 2013 I use rdmd as well. I'm using two shell script, one to build the
• Rob T (8/19) Jul 24 2013 This may be more than you need if your code base is very small,

=?UTF-8?B?Ikx1w61z?= Marques" <luismarques gmail.com> writes:

I have some old D code and I wanted to improve its build system: 
that code was using a .bat and shell script with dmd, manually 
listing all the .d files to be linked! Don't ask me why I didn't 
use at least a Makefile, I don't recall, this is quite old code.

What would you currently recommend to build a not very big D 
codebase?

(if you use just dmd / rdmd, to not depend on another tool, *how* 
do you use it?)

--
Luís

"Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:

On Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 12:24:26 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
 I have some old D code and I wanted to improve its build 
 system: that code was using a .bat and shell script with dmd, 
 manually listing all the .d files to be linked! Don't ask me 
 why I didn't use at least a Makefile, I don't recall, this is 
 quite old code.

 What would you currently recommend to build a not very big D 
 codebase?

 (if you use just dmd / rdmd, to not depend on another tool, 
 *how* do you use it?)

 --
 Luís

If code amount is relatively small (and building does not involve 
calling any external tools), I'd stick with rdmd.
`rdmd --build-only <any dmd flags here> main.d` and let it figure 
out all imports.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2013-07-24 14:34, Dicebot wrote:

 If code amount is relatively small (and building does not involve
 calling any external tools), I'd stick with rdmd.
 `rdmd --build-only <any dmd flags here> main.d` and let it figure out
 all imports.

I use rdmd as well. I'm using two shell script, one to build the 
application and one to run it. Looking something like this:




if [ -s "$HOME/.dvm/scripts/dvm" ] ; then
     . "$HOME/.dvm/scripts/dvm" ;
     dvm use 2.063.2
fi


rdmd --build-only -ofbin/main "$ " main.d

And then the script for running:




./build.sh


if [ "$?" = 0 ] ; then
   ./bin/main "$ "
fi

The "$ " allows to pass in arguments to the compiler when building and 
arguments to the application when running.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

"Rob T" <alanb ucora.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 12:24:26 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
 I have some old D code and I wanted to improve its build 
 system: that code was using a .bat and shell script with dmd, 
 manually listing all the .d files to be linked! Don't ask me 
 why I didn't use at least a Makefile, I don't recall, this is 
 quite old code.

 What would you currently recommend to build a not very big D 
 codebase?

 (if you use just dmd / rdmd, to not depend on another tool, 
 *how* do you use it?)

 --
 Luís

This may be more than you need if your code base is very small, 
but this build system looks promising for medium sized and up 
code base. Worth a look if you plan to expand, or have mixed in 
C/C++ code.

Bottom-up-build (bub)
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/kqfvts$2ut8$1 digitalmars.com

--rt