i've installed dutyl and d.vim (not dsnips though, not interested). i guess now i need to set 'makeprg' (to 'dub build' or 'rdmd --build-only' if dub.json isn't present) and 'errorformat'. this is somewhat uncharted territory for me so i decided to look for existing solutions. didn't get much out of google so here i am. please post your whatever you feel might be useful and i'll try to sum it up and add to the wiki page.

On 08/18/2014 09:39 AM, Jay wrote:
> i've installed dutyl and d.vim (not dsnips though, not interested). i guess now i need to set 'makeprg' (to 'dub build' or 'rdmd --build-only' if dub.json isn't present) and 'errorformat'. this is somewhat uncharted territory for me so i decided to look for existing solutions. didn't get much out of google so here i am. please post your whatever you feel might be useful and i'll try to sum it up and add to the wiki page.

I don't have anything fancy. I add a Makefile for each project with some standard Makefile rule-names, and bind these to some function keys. Most of the rules are just `dub run`, `dub build` etc.

I like doing it this way as I can easily have as complex build rules as I want, and I can also build from the cli.

" Shortcuts for running makefile rules
map <f1> :wa<cr>:!clear<cr>:Dispatch make doc<cr>
map <f2> :wa<cr>:!clear<cr>:Dispatch make tags<cr>
map <f3> :wa<cr>:!clear<cr>:Dispatch make test<cr>
map <f5> :wa<cr>:!clear<cr>:make run<cr>
map <f6> :wa<cr>:!clear<cr>:Dispatch make build<cr>
map <f7> :wa<cr>:!clear<cr>:make debug<cr>
imap <f1> <esc><f1>
imap <f2> <esc><f2>
imap <f3> <esc><f3>
imap <f5> <esc><f5>
imap <f6> <esc><f6>
imap <f7> <esc><f7>

On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 07:45:57 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
> I like doing it this way as I can easily have as complex build rules as
> I want, and I can also build from the cli.

interesting. i'm still a noob so for my projects a trivial
invocation of dub or (r)dmd is enough. i hacked together this:


function! DBuildToolSelect(file)
     let &l:errorformat = '%f(%l):%m,%-G%.%#'

     let dir = fnamemodify(a:file, ':p:h')

     while 1
         if filereadable(dir . "/dub.json")
             let &l:makeprg = "dub build --root='" . dir . "'"
             return
         endif

         if dir == '/'
             let &l:makeprg = "rdmd --build-only '" . a:file . "'"
             return
         endif

         let dir = fnamemodify(dir, ':h')
     endwhile
endfunction

autocmd FileType d call DBuildToolSelect("%")


errorformat could be improved and i didn't test it much but so
far it seems to work.

On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 07:39:05 UTC, Jay wrote:
> i've installed dutyl and d.vim (not dsnips though, not interested). i guess now i need to set 'makeprg' (to 'dub build' or 'rdmd --build-only' if dub.json isn't present) and 'errorformat'. this is somewhat uncharted territory for me so i decided to look for existing solutions. didn't get much out of google so here i am. please post your whatever you feel might be useful and i'll try to sum it up and add to the wiki page.

I found that neovim show me all errors of two D little projects that I was updating to use DUB. I think that it's launching dub build on background and getting the output to show the errors.