Hi,

I'm working on a project that mixes both C and D code, and does code generation as well.

I've been using a shell script to hack this together, since I can't figure out how to do this with dub.

Now I'm looking for a proper build system for building this project. reggae (https://github.com/atilaneves/reggae) seems to be promising, but it has bugs with indirect dependencies and failed to build my project. I have come across cmake-d and a modified version of cmake (https://github.com/trentforkert/cmake). I haven't tested them yet, because neither of them is updated recently, and I don't know if I should invest time in them.

So I want to know what is the current status of those build systems? Are they abandoned or still actively developed? And are there any other build systems I should look into?

Thanks.

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Regards,
Yuxuan Shui

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:

> are there any other build systems I should look into?
>

Premake [1] supports mixing languages in the same build script. It's not a build tool itself, but can generate makefiles and IDE projects. Manu [2] maintains extensions for D support.

[1] https://premake.github.io/
[2] https://github.com/premake/premake-dlang

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 02:00:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
>
>> are there any other build systems I should look into?
>>
>
> Premake [1] supports mixing languages in the same build script. It's not a build tool itself, but can generate makefiles and IDE projects. Manu [2] maintains extensions for D support.
>
> [1] https://premake.github.io/
> [2] https://github.com/premake/premake-dlang

It seems premake-dlang is not capable of fetch dub packages, is that correct?

On 31 July 2015 at 13:20, Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 02:00:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
>>
>>> are there any other build systems I should look into?
>>>
>>
>> Premake [1] supports mixing languages in the same build script. It's not a build tool itself, but can generate makefiles and IDE projects. Manu [2] maintains extensions for D support.
>>
>> [1] https://premake.github.io/
>> [2] https://github.com/premake/premake-dlang
>
>
> It seems premake-dlang is not capable of fetch dub packages, is that correct?

In that it doesn't have a special command to fetch dub packages, that is true. Premake projects are expressed with a scripting language though (Lua), so it's very easy to execute dub commands to fetch packages as part of your script if that's what you want to do.

I haven't received any interest in built-in dub integration, but it's
theoretically possible to make a built-in solution for fetching dub
packages as part of the process quite easily.
Using dub as a build system though is off the table though if you mix
languages. It may be useful as a package manager, but generating
standard makefiles for the multi-language build is necessary.

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a project that mixes both C and D code, and does code generation as well.
>
> [...]

I'll get that bug fixed soon. I planned on doing it today but ran out of time.

Atila

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> I have come across cmake-d and a modified version of cmake (https://github.com/trentforkert/cmake). I haven't tested them yet, because neither of them is updated recently, and I don't know if I should invest time in them.

I'm not sure about cmake-d. I think dcarp stated somewhere that he wasn't actively using D any more, or something to that effect.

The fork of CMake is still active. Trentforkert said he is just waiting for things to progress in the D ecosystem before continuing work. (Mostly related to shared libraries.)

If you're willing to build and use the fork (it's actually really easy,) then you can use the CMake generator I wrote for dub a few months back. Simply run `dub generate cmake` and it will spit out build scripts for your project and all of its dependencies.

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> I have come across cmake-d and a modified version of cmake (https://github.com/trentforkert/cmake).

Oh hey, that's me!

> I haven't tested them yet, because neither of them is
> updated recently, and I don't know if I should invest time
> in them.

I've got a handful of work-in-progress changes I've yet to push publicly, and even more I've yet to commit. (Yes, I have weird work habits.)

> So I want to know what is the current status of those build systems?

I'm still around, and I fix bugs when they get in my way or someone else complains.

> Are they abandoned

No. Neglected, but not abandoned.

> or still actively developed?

If I can find the time (and the files, which hopefully survived a recent Linux distro-switch), I'll see about cleaning up and publishing the additional changes I have soon, and getting things on to a more recent version of CMake.

As Steven Dwy said, I put the project on a bit of a hiatus while waiting for shared lib support to be ironed out (specifically, the behavior of `export`). Part of my unpublished changes includes a change that renders my previous concerns on that front solved regardless of what becomes of `export`. I would still like to be able to run tests for building shared libraries, and I won't even consider upstreaming until I can. Like I said though, I'll deal with bug reports if you file them.

 - Trent Forkert

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 22:40:25 UTC, Trent Forkert wrote:
> On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Oh hey, that's me!
>
>> [...]
>
> I've got a handful of work-in-progress changes I've yet to push publicly, and even more I've yet to commit. (Yes, I have weird work habits.)
>
> [...]

Hi, I just want to let you know I've tried to build my project with your cmake fork, and it worked like a charm :)

Good to hear it's still alive. Let's hope the situation about shared libraries can improve and you can move on.

>
> [...]

On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 23:59:07 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 22:40:25 UTC, Trent Forkert wrote:
>> On Friday, 31 July 2015 at 00:13:42 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Oh hey, that's me!
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I've got a handful of work-in-progress changes I've yet to push publicly, and even more I've yet to commit. (Yes, I have weird work habits.)
>>
>> [...]
>
> Hi, I just want to let you know I've tried to build my project with your cmake fork, and it worked like a charm :)
>
> Good to hear it's still alive. Let's hope the situation about shared libraries can improve and you can move on.
>
>>
>> [...]

I use CMake on mixed C/D projects and dub for D-only projects. On one project I'm using CMake to invoke dub to keep the D libs up to date and no another I invoke CMake from dub to build the C cruft.

I find both work extremely well and are much better than shell scripts or plain Makefile bashing.

bye,
lobo