On Monday, 16 January 2017 at 12:29:46 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 11:40 +0000, King_DuckZ via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 17:30:15 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar
wrote:
> Does CMake recognise D in the enable_language command?
>
> If not is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Dibyendu
One year later, is there any progress on this? Now that gdc
has gained support for .so (it seems), lack of cmake support
is the only thing that is preventing me from adopting D. I
agree that cmake is not the prettiest thing out there, but I
think there are many good reasons for wanting it:
Does this do the job?
https://github.com/dcarp/cmake-d
I had forgotten about that... I even used it at some point a long
time ago, maybe I should give it another try, since it seems to
have received lots of commits since then!
1) As already said, it's needed for CLion
I wish CLion would support Meson.
Meson can build D stuff out of the box.
Hadn't heard of this before, I'll have a look. Btw I don't see
any mention of D on their home page.
2) Many programmers, including myself, are already familiar
with its syntax - pretty or not, learning a new tool is extra
work
Which can actually be a good thing, learning is something we
should all be doing all the time.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be learning things, but time is
limited and I'd rather practice my C++ or D than learn yet
another build system, especially if I only have limited use for
it :)
3) As far as I know, you can't mix C++ and D with dub
I'm having difficulty getting Dub to compile D and clean up
afterwards. :-(
4) I could just drop D code in my pre-existing C++ projects
without much effort on the build system
I was going to try moving Me TV from C++ to D, but the path of
least resistance is to just continue with it in C++ and put all
the C++17 stuff in.
I feel the same about many small tools I wrote.
I hope to hear some promising news on this side!
