digitalmars.D.announce - Rebuild 0.1 released

Gregor Richards (7/7) Feb 05 2007 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not

Kirk McDonald (8/18) Feb 05 2007 Hooray for rebuild!
Tomas Lindquist Olsen (4/14) Feb 05 2007 Great to see an official announcement. Rebuild solved all my bud issues ...
Bradley Smith (6/16) Feb 05 2007 How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?

Kirk McDonald (10/30) Feb 05 2007 -S is for specifying a /path/, not a file. This is for supporting the

Bradley Smith (35/53) Feb 05 2007 How do you use -L to link in the library?

Bradley Smith (6/26) Feb 05 2007 Is something missing from the rebuild-0.1.zip? In mars.c, the lib files

Gregor Richards (6/37) Feb 05 2007 That's just leftover from DMD. Getting libs linked in just involves

Bradley Smith (37/78) Feb 06 2007 How do you use -L to link in the library?

Gregor Richards (5/8) Feb 06 2007 The idea was to make it as close to DMD as possible. I didn't realize

Bradley Smith (6/17) Feb 06 2007 Why is it unsettling?

Gregor Richards (4/27) Feb 06 2007 It's just unportable is all *shrugs*

John Reimer (18/18) Feb 05 2007 Very well done. I've been testing this out and it's working
Gregor Richards (6/16) Feb 05 2007 Rebuild 0.2 released. http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

Gregor Richards (2/2) Feb 05 2007 Forgot to mention: Rebuild 0.2 has been updated to DMD frontend 1.005
Bradley Smith (12/34) Feb 06 2007 When I use -ll, I get and unrecognized switch error.

Gregor Richards (3/17) Feb 06 2007 Argh, really stupid bug - I'll fix that later today.

Thomas Brix Larsen (12/22) Feb 06 2007 It seems rebuild doesn't respect/parse versions.

Gregor Richards (4/4) Feb 06 2007 Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support for

Bill Baxter (7/13) Feb 06 2007 Two questions:

Gregor Richards (8/27) Feb 06 2007 Rebuild does not, at present, support response files. I don't find them

Bill Baxter (23/50) Feb 08 2007 Ok I guess I misunderstood the help message then. What does this mean?

Gregor Richards (22/78) Feb 08 2007 Bloody ... wtf ... mars.c is a bit weird:

Bradley Smith (19/25) Feb 06 2007 rebuild does not appear to be checking the date an exe to determine if

Gregor Richards (5/37) Feb 06 2007 Rebuild checks all of the dates whenever it compiles ...

kris (4/47) Feb 06 2007 This may help? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724290.aspx

Gregor Richards (4/4) Feb 06 2007 Fixed some issues with timestamps (Re Bradley Smith).

David Ferenczi (22/29) Feb 09 2007 Thank you for the great tool, it works much better than bud.

Gregor Richards (6/49) Feb 09 2007 You are correct, those parameters (anything named .ddoc, actually) end

David Ferenczi (2/9) Feb 09 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not 
going into why I wrote it.

It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are 
available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system 
that has a D compiler.

URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 05 2007

Kirk McDonald <kirklin.mcdonald gmail.com> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not 
 going into why I wrote it.
 
 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are 
 available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system 
 that has a D compiler.
 
 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
  - Gregor Richards

Hooray for rebuild!

Most notable is that rebuild outputs object file names as 
fully-qualified module names.

-- 
Kirk McDonald
Pyd: Wrapping Python with D
http://pyd.dsource.org

Feb 05 2007

Tomas Lindquist Olsen <tomas famolsen.dk> writes:

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:39:39 -0800, Gregor Richards wrote:

 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not
 going into why I wrote it.
 
 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are
 available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system
 that has a D compiler.
 
 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
   - Gregor Richards

Great to see an official announcement. Rebuild solved all my bud issues on
my amd64 gentoo system.

Nice work.

Feb 05 2007

Bradley Smith <user domain.invalid> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not 
 going into why I wrote it.
 
 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are 
 available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system 
 that has a D compiler.
 
 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
  - Gregor Richards

How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?

I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, 
but the library is never passed through to the link command.

Thanks,
   Bradley

Feb 05 2007

Kirk McDonald <kirklin.mcdonald gmail.com> writes:

Bradley Smith wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not 
 going into why I wrote it.

 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are 
 available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any 
 system that has a D compiler.

 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

 
 How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?
 
 I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, 
 but the library is never passed through to the link command.
 
 Thanks,
   Bradley
 

-S is for specifying a /path/, not a file. This is for supporting the 
pragma(link) feature. This is like pragma(lib), except you specify a 
sane part of the library name, and it figures out the actual .lib 
filename. (And it does the Right Thing on Linux, too.)

To explicitly specify a .lib file, use -L.

-- 
Kirk McDonald
Pyd: Wrapping Python with D
http://pyd.dsource.org

Feb 05 2007

Bradley Smith <user domain.invalid> writes:

Kirk McDonald wrote:
 Bradley Smith wrote:
 How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?

 I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, 
 but the library is never passed through to the link command.

 Thanks,
   Bradley

 
 -S is for specifying a /path/, not a file. This is for supporting the 
 pragma(link) feature. This is like pragma(lib), except you specify a 
 sane part of the library name, and it figures out the actual .lib 
 filename. (And it does the Right Thing on Linux, too.)
 
 To explicitly specify a .lib file, use -L.
 

How do you use -L to link in the library?

Here is the DMD command I'm trying to convert to rebuild.

dmd gld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib ..\win32\win32.lib 
..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib -version=WindowsXP -Isource 
-I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports -oftriangle.exe 
-L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d


When I simply replace dmd with rebuild -v, it prints the link message 
below, which doesn't contain any of the libs.

rebuild -v gld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib ..\win32\win32.lib 
..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib -version=WindowsXP -Isource 
-I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports -oftriangle.exe 
-L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d

link      dmd .\triangle.obj .\gld.obj .\gld_-internal.obj 
.\gld_-win32-platform.obj .\gld_-win32-window.obj .\gld_-enable.obj 
.\gld_-win32-fullscreen.obj .\gld_-win32-enable.obj 
.\gld_-win32-init.obj .\gld_-win32-time.obj .\gld_-win32-glext.obj 
.\gld_-win32-thread.obj .\gld_-win32-joystick.obj .\gld_-glext.obj 
.\gld_-image.obj .\gld_-stream.obj .\gld_-window.obj .\gld_-tga.obj 
.\gld_-thread.obj  -oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0


If I use -L on the first library "gld.lib", it produces an link error 
"OPTLINK : Warning 9: Unknown Option : NOIGLD.LIB"

rebuild -v -Lgld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib 
..\win32\win32.lib ..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib 
-version=WindowsXP -Isource -I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports 
-oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d

link      dmd .\triangle.obj .\gld.obj .\gld_-internal.obj 
.\gld_-win32-platform.obj .\gld_-win32-window.obj .\gld_-enable.obj 
.\gld_-win32-fullscreen.obj .\gld_-win32-enable.obj 
.\gld_-win32-init.obj .\gld_-win32-time.obj .\gld_-win32-glext.obj 
.\gld_-win32-thread.obj .\gld_-win32-joystick.obj .\gld_-glext.obj 
.\gld_-image.obj .\gld_-stream.obj .\gld_-window.obj .\gld_-tga.obj 
.\gld_-thread.obj  -oftriangle.exe -Lgld.lib -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0


Thanks,
   Bradley

Feb 05 2007

Bradley Smith <user domain.invalid> writes:

Bradley Smith wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not 
 going into why I wrote it.

 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are 
 available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any 
 system that has a D compiler.

 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

 
 How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?
 
 I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, 
 but the library is never passed through to the link command.
 
 Thanks,
   Bradley
 

Is something missing from the rebuild-0.1.zip? In mars.c, the lib files 
appear to be put in global.params.libfiles, but I can't find anywhere 
that the information in global.params.libfiles is used.

Thanks,
   Bradley

Feb 05 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Bradley Smith wrote:
 Bradley Smith wrote:
 
 Gregor Richards wrote:

 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm 
 not going into why I wrote it.

 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are 
 available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any 
 system that has a D compiler.

 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards


 How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?

 I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, 
 but the library is never passed through to the link command.

 Thanks,
   Bradley

 
 Is something missing from the rebuild-0.1.zip? In mars.c, the lib files 
 appear to be put in global.params.libfiles, but I can't find anywhere 
 that the information in global.params.libfiles is used.
 
 Thanks,
   Bradley

That's just leftover from DMD. Getting libs linked in just involves 
passing them into the linker. For every library, you need to add 
-L<library_name> .

I'm going to add a better flag for that.

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 05 2007

Bradley Smith <user domain.invalid> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Bradley Smith wrote:
 Bradley Smith wrote:

 Gregor Richards wrote:

 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm 
 not going into why I wrote it.

 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries 
 are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly 
 any system that has a D compiler.

 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards


 How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?

 I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path 
 path\some.lib, but the library is never passed through to the link 
 command.

 Thanks,
   Bradley

 Is something missing from the rebuild-0.1.zip? In mars.c, the lib 
 files appear to be put in global.params.libfiles, but I can't find 
 anywhere that the information in global.params.libfiles is used.

 Thanks,
   Bradley

 
 That's just leftover from DMD. Getting libs linked in just involves 
 passing them into the linker. For every library, you need to add 
 -L<library_name> .
 
 I'm going to add a better flag for that.
 
  - Gregor Richards


How do you use -L to link in the library?


Here is the DMD command I'm trying to convert to rebuild.

dmd gld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib ..\win32\win32.lib 
..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib -version=WindowsXP -Isource 
-I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports -oftriangle.exe 
-L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d


When I simply replace dmd with rebuild -v, it prints the link message 
below, which doesn't contain any of the libs.

rebuild -v gld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib ..\win32\win32.lib 
..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib -version=WindowsXP -Isource 
-I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports -oftriangle.exe 
-L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d

link      dmd .\triangle.obj .\gld.obj .\gld_-internal.obj 
.\gld_-win32-platform.obj .\gld_-win32-window.obj .\gld_-enable.obj 
.\gld_-win32-fullscreen.obj .\gld_-win32-enable.obj 
.\gld_-win32-init.obj .\gld_-win32-time.obj .\gld_-win32-glext.obj 
.\gld_-win32-thread.obj .\gld_-win32-joystick.obj .\gld_-glext.obj 
.\gld_-image.obj .\gld_-stream.obj .\gld_-window.obj .\gld_-tga.obj 
.\gld_-thread.obj  -oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0


If I use -L on the first library "gld.lib", it produces an link error 
"OPTLINK : Warning 9: Unknown Option : NOIGLD.LIB"

rebuild -v -Lgld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib 
..\win32\win32.lib ..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib 
-version=WindowsXP -Isource -I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports 
-oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d

link      dmd .\triangle.obj .\gld.obj .\gld_-internal.obj 
.\gld_-win32-platform.obj .\gld_-win32-window.obj .\gld_-enable.obj 
.\gld_-win32-fullscreen.obj .\gld_-win32-enable.obj 
.\gld_-win32-init.obj .\gld_-win32-time.obj .\gld_-win32-glext.obj 
.\gld_-win32-thread.obj .\gld_-win32-joystick.obj .\gld_-glext.obj 
.\gld_-image.obj .\gld_-stream.obj .\gld_-window.obj .\gld_-tga.obj 
.\gld_-thread.obj  -oftriangle.exe -Lgld.lib -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0


I would recommend making it work as similar as DMD as possible. With 
DMD, I just list the libraries along with the source and object files.

Thanks,
   Bradley

Feb 06 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Bradley Smith wrote:
 I would recommend making it work as similar as DMD as possible. With 
 DMD, I just list the libraries along with the source and object files.
 

The idea was to make it as close to DMD as possible. I didn't realize 
people were linking libraries like this.

  - Gregor Richards

PS: Rebuild 0.3 will allow this. It still unsettles me though.

Feb 06 2007

Bradley Smith <user domain.invalid> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Bradley Smith wrote:
 I would recommend making it work as similar as DMD as possible. With 
 DMD, I just list the libraries along with the source and object files.

 
 The idea was to make it as close to DMD as possible. I didn't realize 
 people were linking libraries like this.
 
  - Gregor Richards
 
 PS: Rebuild 0.3 will allow this. It still unsettles me though.

Why is it unsettling?

I'm just curious. I don't have a significant preference either way. I'll 
use whatever works.

Thanks,
   Bradley

Feb 06 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Bradley Smith wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 
 Bradley Smith wrote:

 I would recommend making it work as similar as DMD as possible. With 
 DMD, I just list the libraries along with the source and object files.

 The idea was to make it as close to DMD as possible. I didn't realize 
 people were linking libraries like this.

  - Gregor Richards

 PS: Rebuild 0.3 will allow this. It still unsettles me though.

 
 
 Why is it unsettling?
 
 I'm just curious. I don't have a significant preference either way. I'll 
 use whatever works.
 
 Thanks,
   Bradley

It's just unportable is all *shrugs*

I suppose it doesn't really matter :)

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 06 2007

John Reimer <Terminal.Node gmail.com> writes:

Very well done.  I've been testing this out and it's working
exceptionally well with dmd/win32, gdc/linux(x86), and dmd/linux
(x86), and it's very easy to switch between compilers at any point
with just one rebuild binary.  Next, I'll bet testing it out on gdc-
mingw/win32.

By far the best option yet is the "-oq<dir>" (incidentally -oq is
actually the default setting now).  "-oq" tells rebuild to output
object files with fully qualified names: if you have a source file
named uberkit/tools/string.d, the object file will be called

uberkit-tools-string.obj (on win32) and
uberkit.tools.string.o (on linux).

This helps prevent a number of problems with conflicts.

That's just incredibly marvelous :) and something D should have
been doing long ago... no more object name conflicts, thank you
very much.

Having the D frontend in there is a big bonus as well.

Great job, Gregor!

-JJR

Feb 05 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not 
 going into why I wrote it.
 
 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are 
 available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system 
 that has a D compiler.
 
 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
  - Gregor Richards

Rebuild 0.2 released. http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

Rebuild 0.2 adds easier linking to libraries with the -ll flag. For example:

rebuild something.d -llncurses -llm

(-ll stands for "link library")

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 05 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Forgot to mention: Rebuild 0.2 has been updated to DMD frontend 1.005

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 05 2007

Bradley Smith <user domain.invalid> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not 
 going into why I wrote it.

 It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are 
 available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any 
 system that has a D compiler.

 URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

 
 Rebuild 0.2 released. http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
 Rebuild 0.2 adds easier linking to libraries with the -ll flag. For 
 example:
 
 rebuild something.d -llncurses -llm
 
 (-ll stands for "link library")
 
  - Gregor Richards

When I use -ll, I get and unrecognized switch error.

C:\gld>rebuild -llgld -llopengl32 -llglu32 -llwin32 -llgdi32 -llwinmm 
-version=WindowsXP -Isource -I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports 
-oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d
Error: unrecognized switch '-llgld'
Error: unrecognized switch '-llgld'

C:\gld>rebuild
ReBuild version 0.2 (based on DMD 1.005)
...

Thanks,
   Bradley

Feb 06 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Bradley Smith wrote:
 When I use -ll, I get and unrecognized switch error.
 
 C:\gld>rebuild -llgld -llopengl32 -llglu32 -llwin32 -llgdi32 -llwinmm 
 -version=WindowsXP -Isource -I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports 
 -oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d
 Error: unrecognized switch '-llgld'
 Error: unrecognized switch '-llgld'
 
 C:\gld>rebuild
 ReBuild version 0.2 (based on DMD 1.005)
 ...
 
 Thanks,
   Bradley

Argh, really stupid bug - I'll fix that later today.

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 06 2007

Thomas Brix Larsen <brix brix-verden.dk> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:

 Rebuild 0.2 released. http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
 Rebuild 0.2 adds easier linking to libraries with the -ll flag. For
 example:
 
 rebuild something.d -llncurses -llm
 
 (-ll stands for "link library")
 
   - Gregor Richards

It seems rebuild doesn't respect/parse versions.

From derelictGL:
    version(Windows)
        import derelict.opengl.wgl;
    else version(linux)
        version = UsingGLX;

    version(UsingGLX)
        import derelict.opengl.glx;

Rebuild doesn't compile derelict.opengl.glx, which it should on my machine.
If I comment version(UsingGLX) out, rebuild compiles the import just fine.

- Brix

Feb 06 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support for 
'version=' statements.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 06 2007

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support for 
 'version=' statements.
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
  - Gregor Richards

Two questions:

Does rebuild support environment variables in a build file?  Like
    -I$(DMDDIR)/dmd/import

Is there some way to read commands from build files other than the 
' file' syntax?  Like '-f filename' for example.

--bb

Feb 06 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 
 Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support for 
 'version=' statements.

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

 
 
 Two questions:
 
 Does rebuild support environment variables in a build file?  Like
    -I$(DMDDIR)/dmd/import
 
 Is there some way to read commands from build files other than the 
 ' file' syntax?  Like '-f filename' for example.
 
 --bb

Rebuild does not, at present, support response files. I don't find them 
particularly useful, since simply making a .bat or .sh and putting 
'rebuild' at the beginning suffices for a more powerful method with 
negligible learning curve.

I suppose if there is demand, I will add support. My personal distaste 
for them shouldn't be the be-all end-all.

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 06 2007

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Bill Baxter wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:

 Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support for 
 'version=' statements.

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards


 Two questions:

 Does rebuild support environment variables in a build file?  Like
    -I$(DMDDIR)/dmd/import

 Is there some way to read commands from build files other than the 
 ' file' syntax?  Like '-f filename' for example.

 --bb

 
 Rebuild does not, at present, support response files. I don't find them 
 particularly useful, since simply making a .bat or .sh and putting 
 'rebuild' at the beginning suffices for a more powerful method with 
 negligible learning curve.

Ok I guess I misunderstood the help message then.  What does this mean?

f:\>rebuild
ReBuild version 0.2 (based on DMD 1.005)
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 by Digital Mars and Gregor Richards, written by 
Walter Bright and Gregor Richards
Documentation: www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
Usage:
   rebuild files.d ... { -switch }
   files.d        D source files
    cmdfile       read arguments from cmdfile
   ...

specifically the " cmdfile" part.

 I suppose if there is demand, I will add support. My personal distaste 
 for them shouldn't be the be-all end-all.

Well the problem with making a .bat or .sh is that it is platform 
specific.  I don't care if it's a 'response file' or just some 
configuration file in some other format that looks different from 
command line options. But I do find the ability to put a build config in 
a file to be very useful.  And I do find the  file syntax, where some 
particular suffix is implied, to be kind of annoying, because tab 
completion in most any shell completes whole filenames not partial ones. 
  That's why I'd prefer a "-f filename" syntax.  *With* the space in 
between -f and filename if possible.

--bb

Feb 08 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 Bill Baxter wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:

 Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support 
 for 'version=' statements.

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards


 Two questions:

 Does rebuild support environment variables in a build file?  Like
    -I$(DMDDIR)/dmd/import

 Is there some way to read commands from build files other than the 
 ' file' syntax?  Like '-f filename' for example.

 --bb

 Rebuild does not, at present, support response files. I don't find 
 them particularly useful, since simply making a .bat or .sh and 
 putting 'rebuild' at the beginning suffices for a more powerful method 
 with negligible learning curve.

 
 Ok I guess I misunderstood the help message then.  What does this mean?
 
 f:\>rebuild
 ReBuild version 0.2 (based on DMD 1.005)
 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 by Digital Mars and Gregor Richards, written by 
 Walter Bright and Gregor Richards
 Documentation: www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
 Usage:
   rebuild files.d ... { -switch }
   files.d        D source files
    cmdfile       read arguments from cmdfile
   ...
 
 specifically the " cmdfile" part.

Bloody ... wtf ... mars.c is a bit weird:

printf("\
Documentation: www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html\n\
Usage:\n\
   rebuild files.d ... { -switch }\n\
\n\
   files.d        D source files\n%s\
...
",
#if WIN32
"   cmdfile       read arguments from cmdfile\n"
#else
""
#endif
);

That "#if WIN32" should be "#if __DMC__", since it later reads the 
response file with a DMC-specific feature.

That shouldn't be there, and indeed isn't there on Posix X_X

 
 I suppose if there is demand, I will add support. My personal distaste 
 for them shouldn't be the be-all end-all.

 
 Well the problem with making a .bat or .sh is that it is platform 
 specific.  I don't care if it's a 'response file' or just some 
 configuration file in some other format that looks different from 
 command line options. But I do find the ability to put a build config in 
 a file to be very useful.  And I do find the  file syntax, where some 
 particular suffix is implied, to be kind of annoying, because tab 
 completion in most any shell completes whole filenames not partial ones. 
  That's why I'd prefer a "-f filename" syntax.  *With* the space in 
 between -f and filename if possible.
 
 --bb

I'll add a flag. It probably won't be -f, that's just a bit too generic 
for my taste ;)

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 08 2007

Bradley Smith <user domain.invalid> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support for 
 'version=' statements.
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
  - Gregor Richards

rebuild does not appear to be checking the date an exe to determine if 
linking is necessary. Here is a transcript.

C:\>dir hello.* /OD
...
02/06/2007  07:02 PM           106,524 hello.exe
02/06/2007  07:02 PM             2,390 hello.map
02/06/2007  07:04 PM                61 hello.d
02/06/2007  07:11 PM               701 hello.obj
...

C:\>rebuild -v hello.d
...
compile   dmd -c hello.d  -Ic:\dmd\bin\..\src\phobos  -od.
no link necessary

C:\>rebuild
ReBuild version 0.3 (based on DMD 1.005)
...

Thanks,
   Bradley

Feb 06 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Bradley Smith wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 
 Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support for 
 'version=' statements.

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

 
 
 rebuild does not appear to be checking the date an exe to determine if 
 linking is necessary. Here is a transcript.
 
 C:\>dir hello.* /OD
 ...
 02/06/2007  07:02 PM           106,524 hello.exe
 02/06/2007  07:02 PM             2,390 hello.map
 02/06/2007  07:04 PM                61 hello.d
 02/06/2007  07:11 PM               701 hello.obj
 ...
 
 C:\>rebuild -v hello.d
 ...
 compile   dmd -c hello.d  -Ic:\dmd\bin\..\src\phobos  -od.
 no link necessary
 
 C:\>rebuild
 ReBuild version 0.3 (based on DMD 1.005)
 ...
 
 Thanks,
   Bradley

Rebuild checks all of the dates whenever it compiles ...

For the moment just use -full. I'm not sure why this is happening but 
I'll try to replicate and eradicate. It may be Windows-related.

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 06 2007

kris <foo bar.com> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 Bradley Smith wrote:
 
 Gregor Richards wrote:

 Fixed some bugs introduced in rebuild 0.2, and also fixed support for 
 'version=' statements.

 http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards



 rebuild does not appear to be checking the date an exe to determine if 
 linking is necessary. Here is a transcript.

 C:\>dir hello.* /OD
 ...
 02/06/2007  07:02 PM           106,524 hello.exe
 02/06/2007  07:02 PM             2,390 hello.map
 02/06/2007  07:04 PM                61 hello.d
 02/06/2007  07:11 PM               701 hello.obj
 ...

 C:\>rebuild -v hello.d
 ...
 compile   dmd -c hello.d  -Ic:\dmd\bin\..\src\phobos  -od.
 no link necessary

 C:\>rebuild
 ReBuild version 0.3 (based on DMD 1.005)
 ...

 Thanks,
   Bradley

 
 
 Rebuild checks all of the dates whenever it compiles ...
 
 For the moment just use -full. I'm not sure why this is happening but 
 I'll try to replicate and eradicate. It may be Windows-related.
 
  - Gregor Richards

This may help? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724290.aspx

The timestamps on Win32 are perhaps not the most accurate

:)

Feb 06 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

Fixed some issues with timestamps (Re Bradley Smith).

http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

(Ah, the young project, with the fast release cycle)

Feb 06 2007

David Ferenczi <raggae ferenczi.net> writes:

Thank you for the great tool, it works much better than bud.

The only thing I couldn't get to work is the documentation generation with
candydoc. 

The command

-------------8<---------------------------------------
dmd <list_of_my_source_files>
    -Dd<path_to_my_documentation>
    <path_to_my_documentation>/candydoc/candy.ddoc
    <path_to_my_documentation>/candydoc/modules.ddoc
-------------8<---------------------------------------

generates source documentation with candydoc, but the command

-------------8<---------------------------------------
rebuild <my_entry_point_source_file>
    -Dd<path_to_my_documentation>
    <path_to_my_documentation>/candydoc/candy.ddoc
    <path_to_my_documentation>/candydoc/modules.ddoc
-------------8<---------------------------------------

generates the source documentation without candydoc. Presumably the extra
parameters for candydoc are neglected.


Regards,
David


Gregor Richards wrote:

 Fixed some issues with timestamps (Re Bradley Smith).
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
 
   - Gregor Richards
 
 (Ah, the young project, with the fast release cycle)

Feb 09 2007

Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

David Ferenczi wrote:
 Gregor Richards wrote:
 
 
Fixed some issues with timestamps (Re Bradley Smith).

http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

  - Gregor Richards

(Ah, the young project, with the fast release cycle)

 
 
 Thank you for the great tool, it works much better than bud.
 
 The only thing I couldn't get to work is the documentation generation with
 candydoc. 
 
 The command
 
 -------------8<---------------------------------------
 dmd <list_of_my_source_files>
     -Dd<path_to_my_documentation>
     <path_to_my_documentation>/candydoc/candy.ddoc
     <path_to_my_documentation>/candydoc/modules.ddoc
 -------------8<---------------------------------------
 
 generates source documentation with candydoc, but the command
 
 -------------8<---------------------------------------
 rebuild <my_entry_point_source_file>
     -Dd<path_to_my_documentation>
     <path_to_my_documentation>/candydoc/candy.ddoc
     <path_to_my_documentation>/candydoc/modules.ddoc
 -------------8<---------------------------------------
 
 generates the source documentation without candydoc. Presumably the extra
 parameters for candydoc are neglected.
 
 
 Regards,
 David
 
 

You are correct, those parameters (anything named .ddoc, actually) end 
up ignored. I'm fixing this in subversion, the next release should not 
have that issue.

Thanks for the bug report :)

  - Gregor Richards

Feb 09 2007

David Ferenczi <raggae ferenczi.net> writes:

Many thanks!

Gregor Richards wrote:
 You are correct, those parameters (anything named .ddoc, actually) end
 up ignored. I'm fixing this in subversion, the next release should not
 have that issue.
 
 Thanks for the bug report :)
 
   - Gregor Richards

Feb 09 2007

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