I'm using dmake as follows:

    dmake
main -ID:\Code\Compilers\D\dmd\src\phobos -od"bin" -of".\bin\main"
 -gui

which basically creates a text file, "main.rsp":

    -ID:\Code\Compilers\D\dmd\src\phobos -odbin -of.\bin\main
 -op -L/exet:nt/su:windows
    D:\Code\Projects\D\winsamp\main.d
    D:\Code\Projects\D\winsamp\windows.d
    D:\Code\Projects\D\winsamp\graphics.d
    gdi32.lib

then calls "dmd @main.rsp".  Now, I'm expecting this to behave the same as calling dmd directly:

    dmd main graphics
gdi32.lib -od"bin" -of".\bin\main" -L/exet:nt/su:windows

Instead, the "dmd @main.rsp" call seems to ignore the -od flag, and all of my object files are dropped in the source directory.  This is inconvenient, as I'd rather avoid diluting the source directory with all the additional object files.

I've tried editing the main.rsp file manually, placing quotes around the flag arguments, and manually calling "dmd @main.rsp" from the command line, but the result is the same.  Anyone know how to remedy this?  Is this a bug?

Regards,
Garett

Garett Bass wrote:
> I'm using dmake as follows:
> 
>     dmake main -ID:\Code\Compilers\D\dmd\src\phobos -od"bin" -of".\bin\main"  -gui
> 
> which basically creates a text file, "main.rsp":
> 
>     -ID:\Code\Compilers\D\dmd\src\phobos -odbin -of.\bin\main  -op -L/exet:nt/su:windows
>     D:\Code\Projects\D\winsamp\main.d
>     D:\Code\Projects\D\winsamp\windows.d
>     D:\Code\Projects\D\winsamp\graphics.d
>     gdi32.lib
> 
> then calls "dmd @main.rsp".  Now, I'm expecting this to behave the same as calling dmd directly:
> 
>     dmd main graphics gdi32.lib -od"bin" -of".\bin\main" -L/exet:nt/su:windows
> 
> Instead, the "dmd @main.rsp" call seems to ignore the -od flag, and all of my object files are dropped in the source directory.  This is inconvenient, as I'd rather avoid diluting the source directory with all the additional object files.
> 
> I've tried editing the main.rsp file manually, placing quotes around the flag arguments, and manually calling "dmd @main.rsp" from the command line, but the result is the same.  Anyone know how to remedy this?  Is this a bug?
> 
> Regards,
> Garett 

If you look into the rsp file, you'll see
  - the option -op
which comes after your -odbin and so superseedes it.

So the behaviour of dmd is correct.

The reason I chose to use an automatic -op was to make
sharing of object creation work among different projects
as easy as possible. In your setting you will not share
objects and you will get problems with identical module
names in different branches of your source tree.

But that's your problem and I think dmake can be made
more flexible by ommiting -op when an -od is given.

Of course it would then have to look in different
places for current objects. Maybe warn and stop in
case of a name collision. Things often look easy at
first sight and then start getting nasty...

Helmut,

    Thanks for the information, I think I will drop the -od and use -op as
you have suggested.

Best Regards,
Garett Bass