On 10/26/2011 2:30 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I think the best approach would be to have a complete language for the build scripts.
This is the approach I've taken with dsource.org/projects/cdc. That language is D. It provides a library of common compilation tasks and then you fill in the main() with what you want it to do. Then you can simply invoke dmd -run buildscript.d to create your project.
At one point it worked with d1 and d2 with ldc, gdc, and dmd, phobos or tango. But it's been a year or so since I've tested.
It can also be used as a pass-through tool to dmd, gdc, or ldc, except it accepts source paths as well as source files (adding all files in the path to the build). But rdmd may already do this better, since cdc currently lacks any concept of an incremental build.
