On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 13:23:36 UTC, Jonathan Marler
wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 10:06:29 UTC, aliak wrote:
[...]
Yeah I loved working on D. But some of the people made it very
difficult. So I've switched focus to other projects that use D
rather than contributing to D itself.
[...]
Yeah they have proven to be very useful. I have many tools
written in D and this feature allows the main source file to be
a "self-contained" program. The source itself is declaring the
libraries it needs, the environment, etc. And the answer is
Yes, all those options are supported along with a couple I
recently added `//!debug` and `//!debugSymbols`. I anticipate
more will be added in the future (see
https://github.com/marler8997/rund/blob/master/src/rund/directives.d)
To show how powerful they are, I include an example in the
repository that can actually build DMD on the fly (assuming the
c++ libraries are built beforehand).
https://github.com/marler8997/rund/blob/master/test/dmdwrapper.d
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#!/usr/bin/env rund
//!env CC=c++
//!version MARS
//!importPath ../../dmd/src
//!importFilenamePath ../../dmd/res
//!importFilenamePath ../../dmd/generated/linux/release/64
//!library ../../dmd/generated/linux/release/64/newdelete.o
//!library ../../dmd/generated/linux/release/64/backend.a
//!library ../../dmd/generated/linux/release/64/lexer.a
/*
This wrapper can be used to compile/run dmd (with some caveats).
* You need to have the dmd repository cloned to "../../dmd"
(relative to this file).
* You need to have built the C libraries. You can build these
libraries by building dmd.
Note sure why, but through trial and error I determined that
this is the
minimum set of modules that I needed to import in order to
successfully
include all of the symbols to compile/link dmd.
*/
import dmd.eh;
import dmd.dmsc;
import dmd.toobj;
import dmd.iasm;
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Thanks for the interest. Feel free to post any requested
features or issues on github.
Somewhat along these lines, I just found a watched a video by a
guy who's been working on a programming language called Jai (it
has some awesome concepts) and one of the sections he went in to
about source files building themselves I thought was interesting
and reminded me of rund so thought I'd post here. Might inspire
you to add some stuff to rund :)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgbKrDEzAs
Time in video on "getting rid of build tools":
https://youtu.be/uZgbKrDEzAs?t=1849
Enjoy!
