Hello Bill,
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:55 PM, John Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello Bill,
I think the build time of dwt apps is a much bigger issue right now
than the size of exes. The size of exes can be reduced using hacks
like upx, but there is no fix for the long build times as far as I
know.
--bb
Totally agree. The size is just an annoyance. But currently the
build times are pretty bad. Recently, I've been frustrating over
this especially while working on the Browser port. Everytime I want
to test a fix, I have to recompile... which takes ages. This seems
to be partly due to the dsss dependency (recent version is sloooow).
I've been thinking of adding some sort of shell script or "make" file
to see if this can be improved... at least for sanities' sake. :-(
-JJR
Build times with the new dsss push me way past the sanity point, so
I've gone back to 0.76, which I think may have never been released. I
think I built it myself from sources.
Build times with 0.76 are just barely tolerable with my app. But my
colleague was telling me today that he wants to do his work on a
small, non-DWT test app instead of the main app because the build
times are too frustrating for him.
If I were forced to use the latest DSSS, I'd defnitely be trying to do
whatever I could to improve the build times, including using "make" if
that's what it took.
Hmm... Now that dmd -v will spit out all the modules imported, it
might be possible to use that to create a makefile (or a make.deps for
use by a makefile) automatically.
--bb
Frank uses 0.75, but I can't get it to work with Tango svn... But it did
appear to be much quicker than 0.78.
I noticed just doing a dmd *.c on a DWT directory compiles things pretty
fast... so that's why I was considering a shell script or make file. The
only thing I'd miss is the installation and automatic library creation features
of dsss. But I need the speed more.
The dmd -v option has actually been available for quite awhile (a couple
years?). "jake", a build tool Kris threw together a year or two ago, makes
good use of dmd -v import list to do some blazingly fast compiles on windows.
Awhile ago, I had considered porting "jake" to linux (it's C source but with
win32 functions). I may have another look at doing that. DWT really needs
it.
-JJR
