On 7/8/12 3:05 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Jacob Carlborg, el 8 de July a las 13:13 me escribiste:
On 2012-07-07 23:20, Walter Bright wrote:
I think this is potentially a big deal.
If it can be made complete enough, I'd like to add support into D for
it, so you could do things like:
import "stdio.h";
and the D compile would fork/exec Dstep, generate the corresponding .d
file, and import the .d file.
How is this going to work, is it going to be an optional feature? I
mean, this will add DStep (D and Clang) as dependencies to DMD.
DStep is built to be used as a library, I can easily create a C API
which can be used directly by DMD. No need for creating a new
process. I can also make DStep give back the translate D code, no
need for creating temporarily D files.
This can also be done by just dumping the generated code to stdout.
Then any application can use the output without using any temporary
files. Pipes for the win!
Good old date checks (makefile style) can be used for the win.
Andrei
