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reply Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> writes:
Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use build,
and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

build mario alleg.lib

Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong every
so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.
In a .bat file right now, I have this:

build mario alleg.lib
mario

But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if there
isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04
Jan 02 2009
next sibling parent Daniel de Kok <me nowhere.nospam> writes:
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:17:17 -0500, Michael P. wrote:

 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd. Is there
 anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if there isn't,
 execute it, and if there is, don't execute it? DMD1.036, Windows XP,
 Build/Bud 3.04



I haven't seriously used DOS/Windows since halfway the nineties, but 
didn't there use to be a 'pause' command? That will allow you to view 
build output, and possibly to use Ctrl + C to stop the batch file.

Or you could also use ERRORLEVEL after running 'build':

IF ERRORLEVEL EQU 0 mario

-- Daniel
Jan 02 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent Derek Parnell <derek psych.ward> writes:
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:17:17 -0500, Michael P. wrote:


 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:
 
 build mario alleg.lib
 
 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong every
so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:
 
 build mario alleg.lib
 mario
 
 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if there
isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



If 'mario' always needs the alleg.lib file to compile, you can include that
information in the mario.d source file.

eg.

  version(build) { pramga(link, alleg); }

Then you no longer have to keep typing into the Bud command line, instead
you just say ...

   build mario

Use the return code from Bud to see if you can run the compiled program ...

   if errorlevel 0 mario


-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
skype: derek.j.parnell
Jan 02 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

 build mario alleg.lib

 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong every
so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:

 build mario alleg.lib
 mario



build mario alleg.lib && mario
Jan 02 2009
next sibling parent Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> writes:
Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:


 On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

 build mario alleg.lib

 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong every
so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:

 build mario alleg.lib
 mario



 build mario alleg.lib && mario



Okay, thanks, that worked like I wanted it to.
-Michael P.
Jan 02 2009
prev sibling parent reply torhu <no spam.invalid> writes:
On 02.01.2009 22:21, Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

 On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Michael P.<baseball.mjp gmail.com>  wrote:

  Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

  build mario alleg.lib

  Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong
every so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.






Maybe you know this, but here goes. You can just press the up and down 
arrow keys to access command history.  Or F7 for a list.  make sure you 
use cmd.exe, not command.com.


  In a .bat file right now, I have this:

  build mario alleg.lib
  mario



 build mario alleg.lib&&  mario



build supports this directly:
build mario alleg.lib -exec
Jan 03 2009
parent Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> writes:
torhu Wrote:


 On 02.01.2009 22:21, Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

 On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Michael P.<baseball.mjp gmail.com>  wrote:

  Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

  build mario alleg.lib

  Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong
every so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.






 Maybe you know this, but here goes. You can just press the up and down 
 arrow keys to access command history.  Or F7 for a list.  make sure you 
 use cmd.exe, not command.com.
 

  In a .bat file right now, I have this:

  build mario alleg.lib
  mario



 build mario alleg.lib&&  mario



 build supports this directly:
 build mario alleg.lib -exec



I don't think I could do that because the path has spaces in it. I've tried it
before with other programs.
Jan 03 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

 build mario alleg.lib

 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong every
so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:

 build mario alleg.lib
 mario

 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if there
isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



build mario alleg.lib && mario

Stops after the build if build returns a nonzero exit code.   That bit
of the DOS shell is more or less just like a Unix shell.

--bb
Jan 02 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> wrote:

 On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

 build mario alleg.lib

 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong every
so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:

 build mario alleg.lib
 mario

 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if there
isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 build mario alleg.lib && mario

 Stops after the build if build returns a nonzero exit code.   That bit
 of the DOS shell is more or less just like a Unix shell.




Also, with that one-liner you can just use the up arrow instead of
typing it again or going to the trouble of putting it in a .bat file.

--bb
Jan 02 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> wrote:

 On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

 build mario alleg.lib

 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong every
so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:

 build mario alleg.lib
 mario

 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if there
isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 build mario alleg.lib && mario



I beat youuuu
Jan 02 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Tim M" <a b.com> writes:
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:17 +1300, Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com>  
wrote:


 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use  
 build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

 build mario alleg.lib

 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong  
 every so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there  
 is not compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:

 build mario alleg.lib
 mario

 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if  
 there isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04




I thought everyone used dsss with d now. http://dsource.org/projects/dsss.
Jan 02 2009
next sibling parent reply Don <nospam nospam.com> writes:
Tim M wrote:

 On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:17 +1300, Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> 
 wrote:
 

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I 
 use build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

 build mario alleg.lib

 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario 
 wrong every so often, and I generally want to execute it after, 
 assuming there is not compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:

 build mario alleg.lib
 mario

 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if 
 there isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 
 I thought everyone used dsss with d now. http://dsource.org/projects/dsss.



example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around the 
flawed concept that you have a small number of build configurations.
Jan 03 2009
next sibling parent John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
Hello Don,


 Tim M wrote:
 

 On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:17 +1300, Michael P.
 <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:
 

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I
 use build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my
 progress:
 
 build mario alleg.lib
 
 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario
 wrong every so often, and I generally want to execute it after,
 assuming there is not compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:
 build mario alleg.lib
 mario
 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if
 there isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 http://dsource.org/projects/dsss.
 



 example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around
 the flawed concept that you have a small number of build
 configurations.
 




Yes, I think bud is still quite good on windows (and faster than dsss), even 
though I don't use it.  But there's no replacing dsss on linux at the moment. 
It's nice to have the cross-platform option of dsss on win32 too.

That said, if bud worked (easily) on linux, I might actually go back to using 
it again, since dsss doesn't seem to be going anywhere and recent releases 
have been getting slower and bulkier (possibly due to the combined effect 
of recent dmd releases). :-(

-JJR
Jan 03 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Tim M" <a b.com> writes:
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:40:03 +1300, John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com>  
wrote:


 Hello Don,


 Tim M wrote:


 On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:17 +1300, Michael P.
 <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:


 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I
 use build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my
 progress:
  build mario alleg.lib
  Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario
 wrong every so often, and I generally want to execute it after,
 assuming there is not compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:
 build mario alleg.lib
 mario
 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if
 there isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 http://dsource.org/projects/dsss.



 example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around
 the flawed concept that you have a small number of build
 configurations.




 Yes, I think bud is still quite good on windows (and faster than dsss),  
 even though I don't use it.  But there's no replacing dsss on linux at  
 the moment. It's nice to have the cross-platform option of dsss on win32  
 too.

 That said, if bud worked (easily) on linux, I might actually go back to  
 using it again, since dsss doesn't seem to be going anywhere and recent  
 releases have been getting slower and bulkier (possibly due to the  
 combined effect of recent dmd releases). :-(

 -JJR



Could you both explain a bit more about this as dsss says it is based on  
rebuild and rebuild is based on bud. So I though that dsss > rebuild > bud.
Jan 03 2009
parent reply John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
Hello tim,


 On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:40:03 +1300, John Reimer
 <terminal.node gmail.com>  wrote:
 

 Hello Don,
 

 Tim M wrote:
 

 On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:17 +1300, Michael P.
 <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro.
 I
 use build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my
 progress:
 build mario alleg.lib
 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario
 wrong every so often, and I generally want to execute it after,
 assuming there is not compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:
 build mario alleg.lib
 mario
 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and
 if
 there isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 http://dsource.org/projects/dsss.



 example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around
 the flawed concept that you have a small number of build
 configurations.
 



 dsss),  even though I don't use it.  But there's no replacing dsss on
 linux at  the moment. It's nice to have the cross-platform option of
 dsss on win32  too.
 
 That said, if bud worked (easily) on linux, I might actually go back
 to  using it again, since dsss doesn't seem to be going anywhere and
 recent  releases have been getting slower and bulkier (possibly due
 to the  combined effect of recent dmd releases). :-(
 
 -JJR
 



 on  rebuild and rebuild is based on bud. So I though that dsss >
 rebuild > bud.
 




Here's a little history:

Bud (aka build) is a utility originally developed and still (I think)
maintained 
by Derek Parnell.  Derek developed it (now probably beyond original
recognition) 
from a tiny tool called dmake (see  http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?Dmake) 
that was offered to the community around 2004 by Helmut Leitner (who doesn't 
appear to hang around D much anymore even though he seems to still maintain 
the wiki4d site).  

dmake, in turn, borrowed significantly from Burton Radons' D tool called 
'digc,' which was originally part of the very first significant D GUI project 
called dig (see http://www.opend.org/dig/index.html).  This was way back 
circa 2003, I think.  Burton, a prolific and guru-class D programmer (who 
has had a fair bit of influence on the D language itself), still pops in 
here now and again just to unsettle things with his clever D creations that 
he apparently still works on in secret. :)

Bud expanded the original dmake with many more options.  A port to linux 
was also created, but it never caught on very well, I think partly because 
Derek was not keen on Linux development.  Anyway, build was always problematic 
on linux, such that it is now mostly recoginized for its very good win32 
platform capabilites.

DSSS appeared when Gregor Richards came into the D scene.  Basically, when 
Gregor came here, he brought with him experience developing a universal package 
system for linux distributions (among other things) see http://oblisk.codu.org. 
 Gregor was (and is) another one of those gifted and prolific development 
gurus that D tends to attract.  Many of us had been discussing how much D 
needed improved build facilities for multiple platforms.  Something seemed 
to click and in 2006, Gregor had released an early version of dsss which 
was basically a somewhat independent perspective on a "build/bud" tool but 
with a much broader purpose than just building software.  It was a net
installer, 
a source builder, and a package manager (almost) all in one.  The only major 
thing lacking was package version control.  But he added some very simple 
but ingenious naming conventions for D object files and libraries that now 
should be considered mandatory for all D development.

The major difference with dsss that made it such a contrast from Derek's 
build was that the underlying "rebuild" tool made use of the whole Dmd frontend 
in order to parse source files accurately for dependencies.  Despite the 
double overhead, dsss still managed to be fast (at least during the early 
versions), but obviously not as fast as "build" which resorted to very simple 
parsing techniques for import statements.  There certainly were advantages 
and disadvanatages to this approach.  However, build's simplicity has actually 
caused it's attraction to grow again, as the contrast of dsss's complexity 
begins to show the benefits of a lighter design.  Future versions of dsss, 
I think, were going to adopt a different design approach as a result of this.

Later revisions added more and more great features (nothing that particularly 
weighed down it's rebuild component), including excellent support for both 
windows and linux, multiple compiler configurations, multiple "standard" 
library configurations (basically extreme customizability).  It pretty much 
became the defacto standard build tool for D.  Since then, the project has 
began to languish for various reasons, some related to the author's business 
with school and others relating to interaction difficulties with the dmd 
compiler technology.  There were problems with the dmd compile system that 
forced Gregor to make the dsss build process much slower (see oneatatime 
compile option) in the interest of stability. Nonetheless, version 0.75 still 
seems to be the best version to use as of now.  More recent versions seem 
to be unbearably slow due to the effect of recent frontend dmd code.

There is still tremendous potential to improve these tools, but I think we're 
just waiting for the next wave of inspiration to fall on someone here. :)

Probably more history here than you, but it was kind of fun looking back 
on it.  If anyone sees some inaccurancies, be sure to correct.

-JJR
Jan 03 2009
next sibling parent reply Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
John Reimer wrote:

 [snip]
 
 Probably more history here than you, but it was kind of fun looking back 
 on it.  If anyone sees some inaccurancies, be sure to correct.
 
 -JJR



"inaccurancies" should be "inaccuracies".

:P

Thanks for the look back.

   -- Daniel
Jan 03 2009
next sibling parent John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
Hello Daniel,


 John Reimer wrote:
 

 [snip]
 
 Probably more history here than you, but it was kind of fun looking
 back on it.  If anyone sees some inaccurancies, be sure to correct.
 
 -JJR
 



 
 :P
 
 Thanks for the look back.
 
 -- Daniel
 




lol... thanks :) 

-JJR
Jan 03 2009
prev sibling parent reply John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
Hello Daniel,


 John Reimer wrote:
 

 [snip]
 
 Probably more history here than you, but it was kind of fun looking
 back on it.  If anyone sees some inaccurancies, be sure to correct.
 
 -JJR
 



 
 :P
 
 Thanks for the look back.
 
 -- Daniel
 




Incidentally for those that don't remember Daniel Keep... he's another one 
of "those guys". ;)

Daniel, I ran across one of your contributions the other day:  

http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/TextInD

I recall the long discussion on UTF/Unicode back then.  Nice wiki page. :)

-JJR
Jan 03 2009
parent reply Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
John Reimer wrote:

 Hello Daniel,
 

 John Reimer wrote:


 [snip]

 Probably more history here than you, but it was kind of fun looking
 back on it.  If anyone sees some inaccurancies, be sure to correct.

 -JJR




 :P

 Thanks for the look back.

 -- Daniel



 
 Incidentally for those that don't remember Daniel Keep... he's another 
 one of "those guys". ;)
 
 Daniel, I ran across one of your contributions the other day: 
 http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/TextInD
 
 I recall the long discussion on UTF/Unicode back then.  Nice wiki page. :)
 
 -JJR



I'm surprised you didn't call me out on the evil monster that is Tango's 
Variant type.  Or the Zip code.  I really need to find time to go 
through all the bugs against that stuff and fix them all...

  -- Daniel
Jan 04 2009
parent Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> writes:
Daniel Keep wrote:

 I'm surprised you didn't call me out on the evil monster that is Tango's 
 Variant type.  Or the Zip code.  I really need to find time to go 
 through all the bugs against that stuff and fix them all...



Tango's Variant works for anything you give it. That's a bit more than I 
can say for Phobos' Variant.
Jan 04 2009
prev sibling parent Lutger <lutger.blijdestijn gmail.com> writes:
John Reimer wrote:


 Hello tim,
 

 On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:40:03 +1300, John Reimer
 <terminal.node gmail.com>  wrote:
 

 Hello Don,
 

 Tim M wrote:
 

 On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:17 +1300, Michael P.
 <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro.
 I
 use build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my
 progress:
 build mario alleg.lib
 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario
 wrong every so often, and I generally want to execute it after,
 assuming there is not compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:
 build mario alleg.lib
 mario
 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and
 if
 there isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 http://dsource.org/projects/dsss.



 example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around
 the flawed concept that you have a small number of build
 configurations.
 



 dsss),  even though I don't use it.  But there's no replacing dsss on
 linux at  the moment. It's nice to have the cross-platform option of
 dsss on win32  too.
 
 That said, if bud worked (easily) on linux, I might actually go back
 to  using it again, since dsss doesn't seem to be going anywhere and
 recent  releases have been getting slower and bulkier (possibly due
 to the  combined effect of recent dmd releases). :-(
 
 -JJR
 



 on  rebuild and rebuild is based on bud. So I though that dsss >
 rebuild > bud.
 



 
 Here's a little history:
 
 Bud (aka build) is a utility originally developed and still (I think)
 maintained
 by Derek Parnell.  Derek developed it (now probably beyond original
 recognition)
 from a tiny tool called dmake (see 
 http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?Dmake) that was offered to the
 community around 2004 by Helmut Leitner (who doesn't appear to hang around
 D much anymore even though he seems to still maintain the wiki4d site).
 
 dmake, in turn, borrowed significantly from Burton Radons' D tool called
 'digc,' which was originally part of the very first significant D GUI
 project
 called dig (see http://www.opend.org/dig/index.html).  This was way back
 circa 2003, I think.  Burton, a prolific and guru-class D programmer (who
 has had a fair bit of influence on the D language itself), still pops in
 here now and again just to unsettle things with his clever D creations
 that he apparently still works on in secret. :)
 
 Bud expanded the original dmake with many more options.  A port to linux
 was also created, but it never caught on very well, I think partly because
 Derek was not keen on Linux development.  Anyway, build was always
 problematic on linux, such that it is now mostly recoginized for its very
 good win32 platform capabilites.
 
 DSSS appeared when Gregor Richards came into the D scene.  Basically, when
 Gregor came here, he brought with him experience developing a universal
 package system for linux distributions (among other things) see
 http://oblisk.codu.org.
  Gregor was (and is) another one of those gifted and prolific development
 gurus that D tends to attract.  Many of us had been discussing how much D
 needed improved build facilities for multiple platforms.  Something seemed
 to click and in 2006, Gregor had released an early version of dsss which
 was basically a somewhat independent perspective on a "build/bud" tool but
 with a much broader purpose than just building software.  It was a net
 installer,
 a source builder, and a package manager (almost) all in one.  The only
 major
 thing lacking was package version control.  But he added some very simple
 but ingenious naming conventions for D object files and libraries that now
 should be considered mandatory for all D development.
 
 The major difference with dsss that made it such a contrast from Derek's
 build was that the underlying "rebuild" tool made use of the whole Dmd
 frontend
 in order to parse source files accurately for dependencies.  Despite the
 double overhead, dsss still managed to be fast (at least during the early
 versions), but obviously not as fast as "build" which resorted to very
 simple
 parsing techniques for import statements.  There certainly were advantages
 and disadvanatages to this approach.  However, build's simplicity has
 actually caused it's attraction to grow again, as the contrast of dsss's
 complexity
 begins to show the benefits of a lighter design.  Future versions of dsss,
 I think, were going to adopt a different design approach as a result of
 this.
 
 Later revisions added more and more great features (nothing that
 particularly weighed down it's rebuild component), including excellent
 support for both windows and linux, multiple compiler configurations,
 multiple "standard"
 library configurations (basically extreme customizability).  It pretty
 much
 became the defacto standard build tool for D.  Since then, the project has
 began to languish for various reasons, some related to the author's
 business with school and others relating to interaction difficulties with
 the dmd
 compiler technology.  There were problems with the dmd compile system that
 forced Gregor to make the dsss build process much slower (see oneatatime
 compile option) in the interest of stability. Nonetheless, version 0.75
 still
 seems to be the best version to use as of now.  More recent versions seem
 to be unbearably slow due to the effect of recent frontend dmd code.
 
 There is still tremendous potential to improve these tools, but I think
 we're just waiting for the next wave of inspiration to fall on someone
 here. :)
 
 Probably more history here than you, but it was kind of fun looking back
 on it.  If anyone sees some inaccurancies, be sure to correct.
 
 -JJR



Sometimes people post interesting tidbits fit for the wiki in here ;)
Jan 04 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent "Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> writes:
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:44:05 +0300, Tim M <a b.com> wrote:


 On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:40:03 +1300, John Reimer  
 <terminal.node gmail.com> wrote:


 Hello Don,


 Tim M wrote:


 On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:17:17 +1300, Michael P.
 <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:


 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I
 use build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my
 progress:
  build mario alleg.lib
  Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario
 wrong every so often, and I generally want to execute it after,
 assuming there is not compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:
 build mario alleg.lib
 mario
 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if
 there isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 http://dsource.org/projects/dsss.



 example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around
 the flawed concept that you have a small number of build
 configurations.




 Yes, I think bud is still quite good on windows (and faster than dsss),  
 even though I don't use it.  But there's no replacing dsss on linux at  
 the moment. It's nice to have the cross-platform option of dsss on  
 win32 too.

 That said, if bud worked (easily) on linux, I might actually go back to  
 using it again, since dsss doesn't seem to be going anywhere and recent  
 releases have been getting slower and bulkier (possibly due to the  
 combined effect of recent dmd releases). :-(

 -JJR



 Could you both explain a bit more about this as dsss says it is based on  
 rebuild and rebuild is based on bud. So I though that dsss > rebuild >  
 bud.



Don't confuse 'build' (which is a second name of bud) and 'rebuild' (part of
dsss). They are unrelated.
Jan 03 2009
prev sibling parent reply Don <nospam nospam.com> writes:
Tim M wrote:

 

 No way! On Windows, bud is much better. dsss can't build dlls, for 
 example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around 
 the flawed concept that you have a small number of build configurations.



 
 GC'd memory and DLL just don't go well together. I use C++ for my dlls 
 but D for the main apps now. It's just about ok for single threaded. 
 Most of the time I have to write dlls for existsing apps that I have no 
 source for so thats why I can't use ddl either.



I go the other way around -- app is in C++, DLLs are in D. The API is 
entirely extern(C).
Jan 05 2009
parent Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> writes:
== Quote from Don (nospam nospam.com)'s article

 Tim M wrote:

 No way! On Windows, bud is much better. dsss can't build dlls, for
 example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around
 the flawed concept that you have a small number of build configurations.




 GC'd memory and DLL just don't go well together. I use C++ for my dlls
 but D for the main apps now. It's just about ok for single threaded.
 Most of the time I have to write dlls for existsing apps that I have no
 source for so thats why I can't use ddl either.



 entirely extern(C).



I think the extern (C) approach is safest, but I may as well mention that
DMD 2.0 / Phobos does provide limited support for a D app that uses
objects defined in a D DLL.  The Runtime.loadLibrary() call will override
the DLLs GC to use the app's GC instead, so passing objects across the
DLL boundary becomes possible.  I'm personally not terribly fond of this
idea because it has a bunch of issues, but it *does* exist in the DMD
distro today.

Oh, I suppose I should mention that multithreaded DLLs (ie DLLs that
spawn their own threads) are not supported at the moment.  This can
change if necessary, but it will mean yet more complex machinery in
some parts of the runtime that are already pretty dicey.  Truth be told
I'd rather just do away with the whole idea altogether.


Sean
Jan 05 2009
prev sibling parent "Tim M" <a b.com> writes:
 No way! On Windows, bud is much better. dsss can't build dlls, for  
 example, which is a blocker for me. It also seems to be based around the  
 flawed concept that you have a small number of build configurations.




GC'd memory and DLL just don't go well together. I use C++ for my dlls but  
D for the main apps now. It's just about ok for single threaded. Most of  
the time I have to write dlls for existsing apps that I have no source for  
so thats why I can't use ddl either.
Jan 03 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Jarrett Billingsley
<jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> wrote:

 On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> wrote:

 On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Michael P. <baseball.mjp gmail.com> wrote:

 Okay, so right now, I'm making a small game(Mario) using DAllegro. I use
build, and every time, I have to type this in to compile my progress:

 build mario alleg.lib

 Now, I know it's not a lot of typing. But considering I type mario wrong every
so often, and I generally want to execute it after, assuming there is not
compiler errors, it takes time.
 In a .bat file right now, I have this:

 build mario alleg.lib
 mario

 But, mario will execute even if there are errors found by dmd.
 Is there anything that I can use to see if errors were found, and if there
isn't, execute it, and if there is, don't execute it?
 DMD1.036, Windows XP, Build/Bud 3.04



 build mario alleg.lib && mario



 I beat youuuu



Ah, didn't notice because gmail hid your response inside a "click here
to see quoted message".

--bb
Jan 02 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> wrote:

 Ah, didn't notice because gmail hid your response inside a "click here
 to see quoted message".



It does seem to have that bad habit, doesn't it.
Jan 02 2009
prev sibling parent "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Jarrett Billingsley
<jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> wrote:

 On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> wrote:

 Ah, didn't notice because gmail hid your response inside a "click here
 to see quoted message".



 It does seem to have that bad habit, doesn't it.



Er, I hope you don't take it the wrong way - I use GMail and the
mailing lists too, and I've missed my fair share of replies for the
same reason.
Jan 02 2009