On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 19:26:54 UTC, user5678 wrote:
On Monday, 4 November 2019 at 13:37:47 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
Does anyone know a reliable way of having a dub package that
contains git submodules and is to be used as a dependency?
I am looking for a way to ensure the submodules are
initialised before a build.
You can use the "preGenerateCommands" to launch the adequate
git commands. The submodule needs to be indicated using the
"path" property :
"preGenerateCommands" : ["git submodule update --init
--recursive"],
"dependencies" : {
"theGitSubModule" : {
"path" : "./theGitSubModulePath"
},
I have done this before and while it worked I had to "dub
build" twice because the project needed to be read a second
time to discover new source files generated by the commands.
There's a PR that is supposed to fix that:
https://github.com/dlang/dub/pull/1708
But more likely at some point git submodules will be supported
natively.
I noticed 1 thing with preGenerateCommands. They are executed
"every time" even if nothing has to be rebuild. The
preBuildCommands are executed only if there is a build needed.
The mentioned pr only takes care about the preGenerateCommands
but not preBuildCommands.
Kind regards
Andre
