• TTK Ciar (13/13) Jul 23 2022 Hello GDC folks,
• kdevel (21/27) Jul 27 2022 Ran into the same problem when trying to write a separate
• Iain Buclaw (7/20) Jul 28 2022 It would be best to raise an issue so can keep track of feature

TTK Ciar <ttk ciar.org> writes:

Hello GDC folks,

I am using GDC 12.1.0 and not finding any equivalent to DMD's 
"-i" option, which causes DMD to automatically find and compile 
imported modules.  (There's "-I" but that does something rather 
different.)

I've looked in "gdc --help=d" and "man gdc" to no avail, and 
looked through the latest gdmd (from 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDMD) but it does not appear 
to support -i.

Does anyone know if this functionality will be available in the 
next version of GDC?  If it's going to materialize in the next 
year or so I can tough it out, but if it's not I'm inclined to 
write a wrapper.

kdevel <kdevel vogtner.de> writes:

On Sunday, 24 July 2022 at 00:07:06 UTC, TTK Ciar wrote:
 [...]

 I am using GDC 12.1.0 and not finding any equivalent to DMD's 
 "-i" option, which causes DMD to automatically find and compile 
 imported modules.  (There's "-I" but that does something rather 
 different.)

 [...]

Ran into the same problem when trying to write a separate 
Makefile for compiling with GDC. Maybe one of the `-M` family 
switches can be used to emulate the -i behavior:

```
`-M'
      Output the module dependencies of all source files being 
compiled
      in a format suitable for `make'.  The compiler outputs one 
`make'
      rule containing the object file name for that source file, a
      colon, and the names of all imported files.

`-MM'
      Like `-M' but does not mention imported modules from the D 
standard
      library package directories.

`-MF FILE'
      When used with `-M' or `-MM', specifies a FILE to write the
      dependencies to.  When used with the driver options `-MD' or
      `-MMD', `-MF' overrides the default dependency output file.
```

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:

On Sunday, 24 July 2022 at 00:07:06 UTC, TTK Ciar wrote:
 Hello GDC folks,

 I am using GDC 12.1.0 and not finding any equivalent to DMD's 
 "-i" option, which causes DMD to automatically find and compile 
 imported modules.  (There's "-I" but that does something rather 
 different.)

 I've looked in "gdc --help=d" and "man gdc" to no avail, and 
 looked through the latest gdmd (from 
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDMD) but it does not 
 appear to support -i.

 Does anyone know if this functionality will be available in the 
 next version of GDC?  If it's going to materialize in the next 
 year or so I can tough it out, but if it's not I'm inclined to 
 write a wrapper.

It would be best to raise an issue so can keep track of feature 
requests.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=gcc&component=d&version=13.0

Supporting -i on its own might be fine (needs a better name 
though), the pattern matching variant less so.  IMO dub should 
more than capable of doing this instead.