On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 11:19:17PM +0000, Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > [#20699](https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20699) must be > non-trivial to fix, so I'm exploring makefiles. If possible I'd like > to keep dub for dependency management though, just not for actual > compilation. > > Is it at all possible (or even desireable) to construct a makefile > that builds dependencies from outside of the source tree (namely > `$HOME/.dub/packages/package_with_unknown_version-1.2.[0-9]+/`)? > > Does anyone have an example `Makefile` I could dissect? [...]
Don't have a Makefile to show, but I've done the following in the past when I have dub dependencies but need to use my own build system: - Create a subdirectory containing a dummy empty dub project (containing nothing but an empty main()), whose sole purpose is to declare dub dependencies that I need. - Run dub to retrieve and compile said dependencies, with --vverbose so that shows the actual compile commands (for extracting the pathnames of the compiled artifacts). - Copy-n-paste the compiled objects paths into my build system as object files / libraries to link against. In theory, the second step above can be automatically parsed to extract the needed paths, or even recompile after altering the command-line options, but I never got that far because I've since shelved the project (for reasons unrelated to dub). T -- Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. -- seen on the 'Net
