On 2019-08-14 18:29-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
So replacing our ancient fork of CMakeD with a modern fork of cmake-d currently looks like the proper way forward. However, before implementing that I need to do more comparisons between the two CMake D language support projects for dmd, and assuming I can get dmd to work correctly for our needs for cmake-d using modest changes to cmake-d, I also need to try out ldc (not available for our ancient fork of CMakeD) using cmake-d.
The current status is I am making good progress with bug fixes for the cmake-d D language support so that it works for our needs. So for example, I have gotten dmd to work well enough for our CMake-based core build of the D binding and examples on Debian Buster (for a dmd compiler I built for myself since Debian does not package that compiler) that I was able to build the D binding and compile (but not yet link because of at least one remaining issue with cmake-d) all the (updated) D examples with dmd. The results of that dmd compilation of the examples confirmed all of the example fixes (other than x16d.d) that Takeshi Enomoto donated via our patch tracker, and I was also able to solve the remaining dmd compilation errors (which occurred only for x16d.d). My plan for maturing this topic before I push it to master includes the following general steps: * Fix the remaining cmake-d issues for the dmd compiler (as far as I know there is only one such issue left which is the current bad linking of the D examples). And confirm this cmake-d change does not compromise the current good cmake-d results with the gdc compiler. * Fix any cmake-d issues with the ldc compiler without compromising the good gdc results and the (now) good dmd results. * Fix any issues for our traditional (Makefile + pkg-config) build of the installed examples for both dmd and ldc without compromising the good gdc results we currently have for that particular build system. * Replace our ancient fork of CMakeD with a modern fork of cmake-d. In other words, all the above steps will be done with external (patched) cmake-d, and this step will integrate that patched version into PLplot source code for the convenience of our users. The test of whether this topic has truly been matured will continue to be our comprehensive test script (which tests our three build systems for all our library and device variants) should produce perfect results for D for each D compiler (gdc, dmd, and ldc). More later.... Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
