On Tuesday, 21 March 2017 at 21:01:31 UTC, thorstein wrote:
Beside my specific problem of how to start with the mir-tools I
wonder how and for what purpose 'dub' is applied when building
projects in connection with Visual Studio? Or is it just a more
light-weight command line build tool?
Thanks for shedding some light!
Thorstein
Hello Thorstein,
actually mir-algorithm is a library, and can't be run.
A good entry point for dub is
https://code.dlang.org/getting_started
The overall workflow of dub is something like:
1. Create your own project in a empty folder ( dub init ... )
(this will generate several files)
2. Add your dependencies to "dub.json"
(https://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json)
or "dub.sdl" (https://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=sdl)
Yes, there exist two equivalent file formats that dub can
understand.
But you don't have to remember the whole syntax to add a few
dependencies.
The package homepages contain simple snippets you can simply
copy/paste into your
dub.json or dub.sdl file
https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir-algorithm
3. Write code... :)
To build and run your application, execute "dub" in the folder
where the dub.json / dub.sdl file is located
Dub manages downloading the dependencies and building the right
version of them.. Very handy!
If you want to develop with visual-d you can generate a visual-d
project file out of your dub project... ( dub generate visuald )
~togrue
