Is it possible to forward the build type to the dependencies of a dub project? For example, if I build my project with

dub build -b unittest

is it possible to make dub build the dependencies of my project also with the unittest build type? Even better would be a way to specify for which dependencies this should happen.

This would be useful for using dunit (http://code.dlang.org/packages/dunit). When built with the unittest build type, it replaces the default unittest handler to give nicer output about which unittests failed and why etc. If I simply add dunit as a dependency to my project and build my project as described above, dunit is not built with the unittest build type and thus the unittest handler is not replaced and I got the usual assertion error output for failing unittests.

I tried removing the version(unittest) from the part of dunit, which replaces the handler, but it always outputs some text, even if no unittests are being run (if we don't compile with -unittest). Of course I do not want this ouput when not testing and especially not in release code...

On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 16:46:18 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
> Is it possible to forward the build type to the dependencies of a dub project? For example, if I build my project with


Hello,

I have the exact same problem with this exact library, dunit. I was wondering why, running dunit own tests, I had the replacement test runner in place, but not when having it as a dependency to a separate application.

After some tests, and being rather new to the D world, I understand that dunit as a library dependency will be linked (or compiled, if local) by dub without "-unittest", even if my application is compiled with --build=unittest (or by dub test).

I changed dunit configuration to force it to compile in a unittest version, and then it works, but dub then yells at me that I should not do this, and that it would take care of these kind of flags... when it obsiously does not.

So I have two questions:

- how is dunit supposed to be linked to a dub described application?
- why is the test runner in the shared this() compiled only in version(unittest)?