• Shriramana Sharma (18/18) Oct 26 2015 The subject line says it all. Every time I compile a D file to an execut...
• Andrea Fontana (5/8) Oct 26 2015 Do you mean:
• Cauterite (12/15) Oct 26 2015 The problem is that the compiler and linker are separate

Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa_dont_spam_me gmail.com> writes:

The subject line says it all. Every time I compile a D file to an executable 
I get an unwanted .o file and have to manually clean up things. I'm using 
DMD 2.0.68.2.

-of doesn't help, and my God, it doesn't even allow a space or equal sign 
between itself and the desired name of the output file making the 
commandline all the more horrible to read.

-o- is totally misleadingly labeled "Suppress generation of object file" – 
when all it suppresses is the generation of the executable file but it still 
produces the .o file.

With GCC or Clang I'm able to do clang -o exec exec.c and there's no exec.o 
littering my directly. I am not expert enough to submit a PR for the 
compiler while I have attempted some for Phobos. Is there already some way 
to avoid the .o files or shall I submit a bug request for it?

In the meanwhile, can someone please give the CLI syntax some love? 
Comparing to standard compilers like GCC and Clang, the totally strange 
syntax puts one off... Again, I'm not expert enough to do a PR for DMD.

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Andrea Fontana <nospam example.com> writes:

On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 11:55:48 UTC, Shriramana Sharma 
wrote:
 The subject line says it all. Every time I compile a D file to 
 an executable I get an unwanted .o file and have to manually 
 clean up things. I'm using DMD 2.0.68.2.

Do you mean:
  -odobjdir      write object & library files to directory objdir

?

Cauterite <cauterite gmail.com> writes:

The problem is that the compiler and linker are separate 
programs; the compiler has to generate input for the linker in 
the form of a file.

RDMD automatically cleans up all the .obj garbage, so one 
solution is to run
	rdmd --build-only asdf.d

Also, the -of flag is a little more readable if you use quotes
	dmd -of"asdf.exe" asdf.d
Yeah, it's totally inconsistent with other flag syntax like 
-deps=filename

On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 11:55:48 UTC, Shriramana Sharma 
wrote:
 The subject line says it all. Every time I compile a D file to 
 an executable I get an unwanted .o file and have to manually 
 clean up things.