"torhu" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message news:jclttq$trj$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 19.12.2011 00:20, Henrik Nordvik wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for an updated list of D projects or libraries that are >> actively being maintained. I just wasted several hours getting a >> library to work which apparently has been abandoned (DSSS/rebuild, >> last change ~3 years ago.). >> The list on dsource.org doesn't have any indication of whether the >> project is active or not. >> Are there any updated resources for this? I think it is very important >> to have this information somewhere accessible, so that users are not >> misinformed about what libraries to use, like I was. >> > > Unfortunately, I think you would have to check the commit log and the > timeline of dsource projects to know if they are still being maintained. > Or ask for recommendations on this newsgroup when you need a library. > > If you need a build tool, you could check out xfbuild. Or just rdmd > (comes with dmd) for simple cases.
RDMD works perfectly fine for any case that xfbuild can handle. I would honestly recommend it over xfbuild. You just have to make sure you use the RDMD from at least DMD 2.056. I've had a couple problems with xfbuild, though: 1. It tries to do incremental building which sometimes leads to the object files missing some symbols that they should have, and then you get link errors untill you do a clean (due to some DMD issues, AIUI) 2. I was never able to get it to work at all with D2 (but maybe that's changed?)