On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 13:21:18 UTC, anonymous wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 04:02:00 UTC, Maaaks wrote:
I want to make a simple build utility that will rebuild only
those files which changed since last build and those files
that depend on them.
Which is the easiest and yet reliable way to parse a D source
and find all imports in it (and file import()s as well)?
Here's a pull request to make rdmd do that:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/170
It uses regex over `dmd -deps`.
Be aware of the challenges:
Compiling source files separately is slower than passing them
all at once to the compiler. This is why for rdmd the idea is
run dmd once on all source files that need updating. Alas, dmd
behaves a little quirky then with regards to where template
instantiations go [1]. This is currently blocking the PR.
[1]
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/170#issuecomment-112526734
rdmd doesn't run on files that need updating; it always compiles
everything, it has no concept of needs updating. What it _does_
do is figure out what "everything" means.
Atila
