On Friday, 5 December 2025 at 19:49:35 UTC, Ian wrote:
On Friday, 5 December 2025 at 19:03:52 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
On Friday, 5 December 2025 at 18:47:50 UTC, Ian wrote:
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dub was not made to do this and the docs remain:
https://dub.pm/dub-reference/subpackages/ "unfinished" and
will remain unfished
as far as I know adr's code is the futherest dub has been
pushed *and he hates it*;
https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/dub.json when I
followed his advice to not do that shit, it took 50 lines of
code for my own build script. I bet ai can just do it in a
single prompt by now.
You can make a "subpackage", copy someone elses file
structure, but id suggest jumping ship if the json line count
expands past 50 and you run into a single piece of complexity
no one has yet solved.
I see. Well I'm happy to do something different. How do I do
libraries / shared code at all?
`dmd -i -run` will run the majority of files and d allows for the
first line of code to be `#!` which on linux makes it a "script"
Add -unittest and -l and its probaly most of what you want, its
not perfect but d has a fantastic compiler api by comparision.
id suggest having whatever makes your executable runs should be a
`#!dmd ...` if you need linker flags or whatever just look them
up and put them there; from a clean slate thats what I suggest
if you have something complex `std.process` is a bit verbose but
its how you call executables(like the compiler), append some
strings together and throw it at it. I use a wrapper I copy and
paste around.
If youve only used dub, your probably used to an src folder, you
mostly just flatten your folders by 1 and it makes `-i`
automagically work, if you then want folder of executables try to
get by with `./foo/bar.d`.
it can be a bit tricky to be that simple so you may need to do a
build script; Im not following my own advice here but this is
what I was doing a year ago see biuld.d and exmaples/ :
https://github.com/crazymonkyyy/raylib-2024 , kap may have a more
resent and better example with his parin lib.(maybe)
