On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 19:00:56 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 15:48:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Suppose you need to link against a .so file that is in another
directory. How do you find out how to do that on this page:
http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json
But that's just one case. There are basically no examples at
all (and the ones that are there probably don't help). There's
not even a good explanation of what Dub is. Rust, on the other
hand, offers this: http://doc.crates.io/guide.html
If there's no dub option for it, then wouldn't you just pass it
to the compiler in a dflags directive? That's basic compiler
usage, is it not?
This is not to criticize anyone's work. But it is to say that
there is no way Dub, with its current documentation, should be
distributed with DMD.
Then why not pitch in to help improving the documentation? If you
think there should be something explaining how to find shared
libraries in another directory and can't find it anywhere, you
can go to the DUB issues page and report it, or ask in the DUB
forums how to contribute. That's how things get better around
here.
