On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 16:13:56 UTC, Matthew OConnor wrote:
Hi, I'm new to D and trying to make some command line tools
that are run with `#!/usr/bin/env rdmd`. But I would also like
to reference external packages from dub. I know I can do this
with:
#!/usr/bin/env dub
/+ dub.sdl:
name "get"
dependency "requests" version="~>0.3.2"
+/
But when I run it (with `dub get.d` on Windows), it rebuilds
every time.
Is there a way to integrate the two so that `rdmd` is used for
the builds, but `dub` is used to download the necessary
packages?
Thanks,
Matthew
I don't know of an easy way to do out of the box.
However, with dmd's new -i option, it could be as easy as:
---
dub fetch requests
cat > test.d << EOF
import std.stdio;
import requests;
void main() {
auto content = postContent("http://httpbin.org/post";,
queryParams("name", "any name", "age", 42));
writeln(content);
}
EOF
dub fetch requests
dmd -I~/.dub/packages/requests-0.8.2/requests/source -i -run
tests.d
---
However, dmd itself doesn't do any caching (though it would work
similarly with rdmd).
But, of course, this won't work for more complex dub packages.
There's `dub describe` (and a backend generator) for which they
might be used.
