• Mike Brockus (9/9) Jun 04 2019 If you never herd about Meson before:
• Jacob Carlborg (6/7) Jun 05 2019 Here's the reference [1]. You can also run "dmd --help" to print out the...
• Mike Brockus (4/9) Jun 09 2019 This bit of information was helpful. But do you know what this
• Marco de Wild (30/42) Jun 09 2019 A DIP is a D improvement proposal. It is basically a request for

Mike Brockus <michaelbrockus icloud.com> writes:

If you never herd about Meson before:
🤔. https://mesonbuild.com/

I was surprised to find out about Visual D.  And now I’m getting 
concerned about whether my current D projects will work on 
windows beings that I am about to move my operations on a Windows 
computer.

Where can I find a reference for compiler flags?

Also any recommendations for making windows compatible programs?

I would like to use the standard libraries over none standard.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2019-06-05 03:19, Mike Brockus wrote:

 Where can I find a reference for compiler flags?

Here's the reference [1]. You can also run "dmd --help" to print out the 
available flags. [1] might not be up to date.

[1] https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Mike Brockus <michaelbrockus icloud.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 5 June 2019 at 09:45:53 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 On 2019-06-05 03:19, Mike Brockus wrote:

 Where can I find a reference for compiler flags?

 Here's the reference [1]. You can also run "dmd --help" to 
 print out the available flags. [1] might not be up to date.

 [1] https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html

This bit of information was helpful.  But do you know what this 
is -dip- followed by some number...  I seen three of them in Mir 
Algorithm meson build.

Marco de Wild <mdwild sogyo.nl> writes:

On Sunday, 9 June 2019 at 19:12:32 UTC, Mike Brockus wrote:
 On Wednesday, 5 June 2019 at 09:45:53 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 On 2019-06-05 03:19, Mike Brockus wrote:

 Where can I find a reference for compiler flags?

 Here's the reference [1]. You can also run "dmd --help" to 
 print out the available flags. [1] might not be up to date.

 [1] https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html

 This bit of information was helpful.  But do you know what this 
 is -dip- followed by some number...  I seen three of them in 
 Mir Algorithm meson build.

A DIP is a D improvement proposal. It is basically a request for 
a change of the language. Some of these can be implemented in one 
go, as they don't have any breaking changes. However, some DIPs 
break an unknown amount of code. To allow for a smooth 
transition, the new features are implemented, and are opt-in. 
Users can then gradually get their code base to compile with the 
new behaviour.

The DIP flags indicate that the compiler will build your code 
with said improvement enabled. The three DIPs you are talking 
about are

* dip25 which implements 
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/archive/DIP25.md
   This is about sealed references. If I understand correctly, 
switching this flag requires that you annotate a ref function 
parameter with return if you want to return it from the function.

* dip1000 which implements 
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/other/DIP1000.md
   This implements more scope checking for pointers. It hands a 
few extra safety checks for when pointers may last longer than 
the data they actually point to.

* dip1008 which implements 
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1008.md
   This allows users to throw exceptions in  nogc code.

For completeness, they correspond to the current "-preview=dipX" 
compiler flag. They have been grouped together under the 
"preview" option because they were cluttering the interface. In 
fact, I gathered the information in this post by running 
"-preview=?", listing all features here. Also, at some time in 
the future, a preview will become the default behaviour.