On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 1:42 PM, David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 17:36:35 UTC, Trent Forkert via > Digitalmars-d wrote: > >> The support for D in CMake is currently very minimal. Various groups >> (including LDC) have partial solutions that work to a certain extent. >> > > That's a very kind way to put it. ;) > I have seen far worse CMake configs. You deserve the kindness. > As you certainly know (but others might not), we currently just invoke LDC > as a custom command for building the runtime libraries, without any proper > language support at all. This shows that CMake is flexible enough to handle > atypical use cases like that, but I'm looking forward to your work for > proper language support (compiler detection, …). > > If I remember correctly, Ben Boeckel from Kitware was also looking into > adding D support to CMake a while back. How does your project relate to his? > Ben's work was originally much more limited than mine. Once he found out about my work (read: once I pushed it to a public repo), he started helping me when time allows. I feel I should probably mention that his interest in D is (IIRC) as a Fedora contributor, updating old, abandoned D1 projects to D2, not in any official Kitware capacity. Cheers, > David > - Trent
