Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not going into why I wrote it.

It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system that has a D compiler.

URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

 - Gregor Richards

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not going into why I wrote it.
> 
> It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system that has a D compiler.
> 
> URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Hooray for rebuild!

Most notable is that rebuild outputs object file names as fully-qualified module names.

-- 
Kirk McDonald
Pyd: Wrapping Python with D
http://pyd.dsource.org

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:39:39 -0800, Gregor Richards wrote:

> Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not going into why I wrote it.
> 
> It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system that has a D compiler.
> 
> URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
> 
>   - Gregor Richards

Great to see an official announcement. Rebuild solved all my bud issues on my amd64 gentoo system.

Nice work.

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not going into why I wrote it.
> 
> It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system that has a D compiler.
> 
> URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?

I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, but the library is never passed through to the link command.

Thanks,
  Bradley

Bradley Smith wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not going into why I wrote it.
>>
>> It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system that has a D compiler.
>>
>> URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?
> 
> I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, but the library is never passed through to the link command.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Bradley
> 

-S is for specifying a /path/, not a file. This is for supporting the pragma(link) feature. This is like pragma(lib), except you specify a sane part of the library name, and it figures out the actual .lib filename. (And it does the Right Thing on Linux, too.)

To explicitly specify a .lib file, use -L.

-- 
Kirk McDonald
Pyd: Wrapping Python with D
http://pyd.dsource.org

Very well done.  I've been testing this out and it's working exceptionally well with dmd/win32, gdc/linux(x86), and dmd/linux (x86), and it's very easy to switch between compilers at any point with just one rebuild binary.  Next, I'll bet testing it out on gdc- mingw/win32.

By far the best option yet is the "-oq<dir>" (incidentally -oq is actually the default setting now).  "-oq" tells rebuild to output object files with fully qualified names: if you have a source file named uberkit/tools/string.d, the object file will be called

uberkit-tools-string.obj (on win32) and
uberkit.tools.string.o (on linux).

This helps prevent a number of problems with conflicts.

That's just incredibly marvelous :) and something D should have been doing long ago... no more object name conflicts, thank you very much.

Having the D frontend in there is a big bonus as well.

Great job, Gregor!

-JJR

Kirk McDonald wrote:
> Bradley Smith wrote:
>>
>> How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?
>>
>> I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, but the library is never passed through to the link command.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Bradley
>>
> 
> -S is for specifying a /path/, not a file. This is for supporting the pragma(link) feature. This is like pragma(lib), except you specify a sane part of the library name, and it figures out the actual .lib filename. (And it does the Right Thing on Linux, too.)
> 
> To explicitly specify a .lib file, use -L.
> 

How do you use -L to link in the library?

Here is the DMD command I'm trying to convert to rebuild.

dmd gld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib ..\win32\win32.lib ..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib -version=WindowsXP -Isource -I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports -oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d


When I simply replace dmd with rebuild -v, it prints the link message below, which doesn't contain any of the libs.

rebuild -v gld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib ..\win32\win32.lib ..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib -version=WindowsXP -Isource -I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports -oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d

link      dmd .\triangle.obj .\gld.obj .\gld_-internal.obj .\gld_-win32-platform.obj .\gld_-win32-window.obj .\gld_-enable.obj .\gld_-win32-fullscreen.obj .\gld_-win32-enable.obj .\gld_-win32-init.obj .\gld_-win32-time.obj .\gld_-win32-glext.obj .\gld_-win32-thread.obj .\gld_-win32-joystick.obj .\gld_-glext.obj .\gld_-image.obj .\gld_-stream.obj .\gld_-window.obj .\gld_-tga.obj .\gld_-thread.obj  -oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0


If I use -L on the first library "gld.lib", it produces an link error "OPTLINK : Warning 9: Unknown Option : NOIGLD.LIB"

rebuild -v -Lgld.lib ..\gl\opengl32.lib ..\gl\glu32.lib ..\win32\win32.lib ..\win32\gdi32.lib ..\win32\winmm.lib -version=WindowsXP -Isource -I..\gl\imports -I..\win32\imports -Iimports -oftriangle.exe -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0 source\examples\triangle.d

link      dmd .\triangle.obj .\gld.obj .\gld_-internal.obj .\gld_-win32-platform.obj .\gld_-win32-window.obj .\gld_-enable.obj .\gld_-win32-fullscreen.obj .\gld_-win32-enable.obj .\gld_-win32-init.obj .\gld_-win32-time.obj .\gld_-win32-glext.obj .\gld_-win32-thread.obj .\gld_-win32-joystick.obj .\gld_-glext.obj .\gld_-image.obj .\gld_-stream.obj .\gld_-window.obj .\gld_-tga.obj .\gld_-thread.obj  -oftriangle.exe -Lgld.lib -L-L/exet:nt/su:windows:4.0


Thanks,
  Bradley

Bradley Smith wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not going into why I wrote it.
>>
>> It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system that has a D compiler.
>>
>> URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?
> 
> I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, but the library is never passed through to the link command.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Bradley
> 

Is something missing from the rebuild-0.1.zip? In mars.c, the lib files appear to be put in global.params.libfiles, but I can't find anywhere that the information in global.params.libfiles is used.

Thanks,
  Bradley

Bradley Smith wrote:
> Bradley Smith wrote:
> 
>> Gregor Richards wrote:
>>
>>> Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not going into why I wrote it.
>>>
>>> It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system that has a D compiler.
>>>
>>> URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
>>>
>>>  - Gregor Richards
>>
>>
>> How do I use rebuild to link in libraries?
>>
>> I've tried using -Spath with some.lib and the full path path\some.lib, but the library is never passed through to the link command.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Bradley
>>
> 
> Is something missing from the rebuild-0.1.zip? In mars.c, the lib files appear to be put in global.params.libfiles, but I can't find anywhere that the information in global.params.libfiles is used.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Bradley

That's just leftover from DMD. Getting libs linked in just involves passing them into the linker. For every library, you need to add -L<library_name> .

I'm going to add a better flag for that.

 - Gregor Richards

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Rebuild is a recreation of build/bud. I'm not a politician, so I'm not going into why I wrote it.
> 
> It's based on the original DMD frontend, so it's in C++. Binaries are available for GNU/Linux and Windows. It should work on nearly any system that has a D compiler.
> 
> URL: http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Rebuild 0.2 released. http://www.dsource.org/projects/dsss/wiki/Rebuild

Rebuild 0.2 adds easier linking to libraries with the -ll flag. For example:

rebuild something.d -llncurses -llm

(-ll stands for "link library")

 - Gregor Richards