On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 18:01:19 UTC, Derix wrote:
But of course ! I should have thought of this myself.
Subsequent question though : what is the -I option for ? The dmd
embedded help states
-Ipath where to look for imports
so I'd naively think it would work too, but it yields the same
error as above.
The error comes from the linker, the compiler itself found your
imported module and compiled it without error.
In general, there are two ways in which you can compile a larger
project consisting of multiple files. Either compile everything
at once, as Adam suggests. In this case, the compiler will also
call the linker for you to put all parts together and produce an
executable.
The other way would be to compile each file (module) separately.
To do so, you have to specify the `-c` option; the compiler will
then write out an object file for the module you specified on the
command line. When you're done compiling all modules, you need to
invoke the linker manually, specifying all of the object files.
The latter is the default model used in C and C++. The reason is
that during development it is often faster to recompile only
those parts of your project that have actually changed (and those
that depend on them). Compiling D however, is a lot faster than
compiling C++, therefore the first method is usually preferrable.
