On Friday, 21 July 2023 at 17:40:25 UTC, Greggor wrote:
Up to date versions of Windows 10 should have curl included and dub can run commands before building, so you could try downloading a prebuilt lib for windows via curl. https://everything.curl.dev/get/windows
Hey, nice! This might be a winner. Unless I'm missing something libcairo-2.dll, libpng13.dll and zlib1.dll could be downloaded, and then ggplotd plot can build against those (probably?).
The key thing that dub is missing compared to pip is some concept of an "install" directory. Compared to everything else dub handles, not adding this capability mostly comes down to self imposed limitations. I wonder how many in the community would like to see those limitations removed?
I presume it's just as easy to add commands that run after the build as before. I could have an alternate dub configuration that's short for "setup_build_test_install" that runs everything.
If multiple projects start defining an install target the same way, then you have a convention, which can eventually lead to a standard.
