On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 10:32:14 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 08:22:30 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
Hi GDC
Attempting to use meson I found that I probably need dub, but
building dub requires dmd command line emulation. The external
gdmd perl script to handles this course, but should there be a
gdmd binary that is built while producing gdc? Pulling in a
whole extra language interpreter seems like a big dependency
when bootstrapping the toolchain.
On the other hand, maybe dub's build.d should be updated to
understand native gdc command lines, not sure which option is
best.
There have been a few attempts to rewrite it in D, all have
stalled really due to whoever took the initiative running out
of time or moving onto other things.
https://github.com/d-Programming-GDC/gdmd/tree/dport
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdmd/tree/gdmd-neo
I think the best route to go may be to just pick one and run
with it, then push it into a dtools or gdctools directory on
the gcc tree.
One thing I'd like to note about gdmd (the version of it that I
have on my machine at least) is that it doesn't pass through
arguments it can't recognize (whereas ldmd2 does do this).
Not passing them through is subtly really annoying.
