Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:20:56 +0200, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2011/01/18/what-makes-a-programming-language-good/
So, why do users still get a scary linker error when they try to compile
a program with more than 1 module?
What is that message?
IMO, sticking to the C-ism of "one object file at a time" and dependency
on external build tools / makefiles is the biggest mistake DMD did in
this regard. Practically everyone to whom I recommended to try D hit
this obstacle. rdmd is nice but I see no reason why this shouldn't be in
the compiler. Think of the time wasted by build tool authors (bud,
rebuild, xfbuild and others, and now rdmd), which could have been put to
better use if this were handled by the compiler, who could do it much
easier (until relatively recently it was very hard to track dependencies
correctly).
dmd can build entire programs with one command:
dmd file1.d file2.d file3.d ...etc...
