Saaa wrote: > Instead of running build/bud you could run your old program to rebuild > itself? >
That's the idea! :) >> I just committed tools/remake.d. What it does in a nutshell is this: >> >> it lets you add a call in your main.d file, along the lines of >> >> checkRemake(args, "path/to/source/file.d"); >> >> checkRemake invokes gdc (or a compiler of choice, via string Compiler), in >> verbose mode, to generate a list of imports, then filters out Phobos files >> (that part could probably use some work). Then it checks each of those >> files to see if they're newer than the corresponding obj/ file, and if >> yes, rebuilds them. >> >> Finally, if any object files were rebuilt, it links a new binary, calls >> the destructors, and invokes it. >> >> Designed to run on Unix-based systems, you might find it useful for >> developing server-side scripts in D, as it lets you just edit a webpage's >> D source and reload in the browser to trigger an incremental rebuild. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> PS: source >> http://svn.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/trunk/tools/tools/remake.d > >
