I've been brain storming lately on some ideas to simplify building for the library I've been working on, and I wanted to do some experimenting using cmdfiles. Is there some way that I can pass a search path for these bad boys to the compiler if they are just text files?

On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 07:33:47 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> I've been brain storming lately on some ideas to simplify building for the library I've been working on, and I wanted to do some experimenting using cmdfiles. Is there some way that I can pass a search path for these bad boys to the compiler if they are just text files?

don't know about that, but there is string mixin search paths - using it with mixins may be possible alternative for what you trying to achieve(assuming you are using handmade D build script).

and also depending on your needs it may worth look at dub[1,2].

[1] http://code.dlang.org/download
[2] https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub

On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 08:01:30 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 07:33:47 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> I've been brain storming lately on some ideas to simplify building for the library I've been working on, and I wanted to do some experimenting using cmdfiles. Is there some way that I can pass a search path for these bad boys to the compiler if they are just text files?
>
> don't know about that, but there is string mixin search paths - using it with mixins may be possible alternative for what you trying to achieve(assuming you are using handmade D build script).


I'm not exactly talking about building the library(though that
does give me ideas for future experimenting), but making it
easier for users to use it in their own projects. If I could have
pre-made cmdfiles, the user could just send the compiler a
location to where those are, and use them in their projects. I've
already done some experimenting, and so far things have been
successful, but I would really like a way to let the compiler know
where to look for them. If this existed, it would make the build
process quite a lot easier.

I'm extremely new to Linux so I am still trying to work out
some(a ton of) kinks, but here is an example of one of the
cmdfiles I have been toying with.

Name: dsfml-graphics

-I/usr/local/src/
-L-L/usr/local/lib/dsfml
-L-ldsfml-graphics-2
-L-ldsfml-graphics
-L-ljpeg
-L-lGL
-L-lGLU
-L-lfreetype
-L-lGLEW

I have a couple more files that are put together in a similar
fashion with an end result being a command line that looks like
this to build an example program: dmd main.d @dsfml-graphics
@dsfml-window @dsfml-system

Obviously this wouldn't work on every system , but it is a start
and I really like how it has turned out so far.

> and also depending on your needs it may worth look at dub[1,2].
>
> [1] http://code.dlang.org/download
> [2] https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub
I've used DUB before and think it is really cool. Not
everyone uses it, though. I'm trying to come up with a system that works
well be it DUB, vanilla command line, or IDE.