Re: DUB doesn't seem to respect my config, am I doing something wrong?

[Jordan Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 22 May 2021 at 20:28:56 UTC, rempas wrote:
I've read the documentation about DUB's config (I'm using the 
SDL format) and it seems that DUB completely ignores my config. 
My config file is:

```
name "test"
description "Testing dub"
authors "rempas"
copyright "Copyright © 2021, rempas"
license "AGPL-3.0"
compiler "ldc2"

configuration "development" {
  platforms "linux"
  build "dubug"
  compiler "ldc2"
  targetType "executable"
}

configuration "release" {
  platforms "linux"
  dflags "-Oz" platform="/bin/ldc2"
  build "release"
  compiler "ldc2"
  targetType "executable"
}
```

I'm compiling using `dub --config=development` and I'm getting 
the following line: `Performing "debug" build using 
/usr/bin/dmd for x86_64`. The same exactly happens when I'm 
trying to do the release config. If I disable the `targetType` 
option, it seems that it's creating a library and I can also 
manually change the compiler and the build-type so I don't know 
what's going on....

Ignoring the "dubug" typo...normally, I think you pass compiler 
values directly to dub via the ```--compiler``` flag. For example:
```shell
dub --config=development --compiler=ldc2
```

Note: you can also pass "debug" and "release" builds (among 
others), like so:
```shell
dub -b "debug" --compiler=ldc2
```

Passing in the compiler allows any end user building your code to 
use whatever compiler they want. Otherwise, something like 
```toolchainRequirements dmd="no" ldc=">=1.21.0"``` may achieve 
what you want.

Thanks,

Jordan