I have two questions.

1. Is it possible to build subpackages when dub build is invoked for the main package? It's a pain to first do dub build :mysubpackage and then dub build.

2. It seems that when dub detects that no dependencies need to be updated, it does not run the pre-build commands. I have some pre-build commands that generate data to be imported by the main package and thus must always be run for a build. Is there a way to specify this?

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 00:03:22 UTC, Meta wrote:
> I have two questions.
>
> 1. Is it possible to build subpackages when dub build is invoked for the main package? It's a pain to first do dub build :mysubpackage and then dub build.
>
> 2. It seems that when dub detects that no dependencies need to be updated, it does not run the pre-build commands. I have some pre-build commands that generate data to be imported by the main package and thus must always be run for a build. Is there a way to specify this?

I use the "preGenerateCommands" and "dependencies" like this:

    "configurations" : [
        {
            "comment"             : "Classic app.",
            "name"                : "eqapp",
            "preGenerateCommands" : ["sed -e 's#topdir/#$PACKAGE_DIR#' src/config/constants.d.in > src/config/constants.d"],
            "dependencies"        : {":dgtalib" : "*", "gtk-d:gtkd": "~>3.3.0"},
        },
      ....

Hope this helps you.
Antonio

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 07:52:56 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
> I use the "preGenerateCommands" and "dependencies" like this:
>
>     "configurations" : [
>         {
>             "comment"             : "Classic app.",
>             "name"                : "eqapp",
>             "preGenerateCommands" : ["sed -e 's#topdir/#$PACKAGE_DIR#' src/config/constants.d.in > src/config/constants.d"],
>             "dependencies"        : {":dgtalib" : "*", "gtk-d:gtkd": "~>3.3.0"},
>         },
>       ....
>
> Hope this helps you.
> Antonio

When are pre-generate commands run?

On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 07:00:18 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 07:52:56 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
>> I use the "preGenerateCommands" and "dependencies" like this:
>>
>>     "configurations" : [
>>         {
>>             "comment"             : "Classic app.",
>>             "name"                : "eqapp",
>>             "preGenerateCommands" : ["sed -e 's#topdir/#$PACKAGE_DIR#' src/config/constants.d.in > src/config/constants.d"],
>>             "dependencies"        : {":dgtalib" : "*", "gtk-d:gtkd": "~>3.3.0"},
>>         },
>>       ....
>>
>> Hope this helps you.
>> Antonio
>
> When are pre-generate commands run?

Official docs say this:

preGenerateCommands	string[]	A list of shell commands that is executed before project generation is started

If my memory serves me well I started to use it instead of preBuildCommands because they are always executed and, in my case, I needed that (to simulate the autoconf/cmake 'file.in -> file' idiom).

Antonio