• Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d (19/19) Feb 20 2017 Could we have a `dmd -v=json` ?
• Chris Wright (2/3) Feb 20 2017 Can you put together a sketch of what this would look like?

Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:

Could we have a `dmd -v=json` ?

Related:

would be nice to also show (in json output) fields including dflags
and lflags to avoid having to do the work that the compiler already
did:

`dmd | grep 'Config file'`
Config file: path/to/etc/dmd.conf

followed py parsing the contents of `dmd.conf` which could look like this:

```
[Environment32]
DFLAGS=-I% P%/../../src/phobos -I% P%/../../src/druntime/import
-L-L% P%/../lib32 -L--export-dynamic

[Environment64]
DFLAGS=-I% P%/../../src/phobos -I% P%/../../src/druntime/import
-L-L% P%/../lib64 -L--export-dynamic -fPIC
```

and then selecting the appropriate environment, and interpretting the
 P, then parsing the corresponding entries into lflags and dflags.

This is a lot of work, it makes no sense not to expose it.

Chris Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:08:14 -0800, Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d wrote:
 Could we have a `dmd -v=json` ?

Can you put together a sketch of what this would look like?