On Monday, 21 May 2018 at 12:53:47 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 5/21/18 8:37 AM, Jonathan M. Wilbur wrote:
I want to put in a feature request, but I want to gauge
whether it is even feasible or not, but a little background
first:
I am trying to create a Makefile to build the HTML
documentation for a Dlang project. I would like to be able to
update a single HTML file if the corresponding source changes,
without having to recompile all of the others. My rule looks
like this:
$(DCOMPILER) -o- -op -d -Df$@ $<
But that does not work, because some of the compiled modules
import other modules, and the rule fails because DCOMPILER
can't intelligently pull in the other source files. I think
requiring a complete compile of all source to build the HTML
documentation is a big impediment to making D highly scalable.
Having said that, I don't see why it would be technically
impossible to make DMD build the HTML (almost) without regard
to the validity of the source code. Is this possible? And
moreover: *should* it be done? Is it a bad idea?
1. I don't think it requires compiling all other files.
2. You may want to use -c (not sure what the exact error is you
are receiving)
3. You may need to specify where the other includes are with -I
(not sure what the exact error is you are receiving).
I'm fairly certain D can do what you want it to do. But
difficult to tell without more context/example.
-Steve
So it seems that I still have to include all of the interfaces
(at least; source would work too), but I got it to work by adding
the -I operator:
html_documentation : $(htmldocs)
$(htmldocs) :
$(SRCDIR)/documentation/html/source/$(PACKAGE_SLUG)/%.html :
$(SRCDIR)/source/$(PACKAGE_SLUG)/%.d
$(DCOMPILER) -o- -op -d -I$(SRCDIR)/source
$(SRCDIR)/source/macros.ddoc -Df$@ $<
Since I am not producing binaries (per the "-o-" flag), I don't
know if it is still doing all the work of compiling and just not
writing the files to disk, or if it is just doing some basic
lexing, but this is at least acceptable.
Thanks for getting my noggin joggin'!
