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Shawn Liu
Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 104 Location: Shanghai, China
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:46 am Post subject: A handy tool build D project in Visual Studio or UltraEdit |
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I used to manage dwt project files with DIDE. DIDE is unsupported for a long time. It stores all the project files in one line with full pathname. The line comes extraordinary long with the increase of project files so as to it can't handle this any more but collapse. And every time I buid the project with DIDE, then have to switch to MS Visual Studio to bebug.
So I write this tool to build D source files in VS IDE. It's simple with no incremental capibility. Do full build every time. But I think it is useful and handy.
BldTool.exe enumerates the d source files in your project (folder and subfolders based) and collectes the information then invokes DMD to buid the project. It's easy to use and need almost no configuration.
It can be used in console mode directly or work with those editors who supports customized tool configuration such as UltraEdit, Source Insight, EditPlus2.
A tutorial article to set this tool with VS and UE is available
http://www.dnaic.com/d/en/bldtool.htm
The download URL
http://www.dnaic.com/d/download/bldtool.rar
Any comments, criticisms are welcome
Shawn |
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JJR
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1104
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:07 am Post subject: |
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This is good, Shawn. But I think "Build", a project well developed on this site by Derek, accomplishes these tasks already. It's actively developed and one of the best tools for D so far. Have you had a look at it yet? Does your tool differ from it somehow?
Thanks,
John |
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Shawn Liu
Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 104 Location: Shanghai, China
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:20 am Post subject: |
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Firstly, this tool is very easy to use. Copy "bldtool.exe" into your D project files folder. Run "bldtool.exe /Q" in console, your project is built. Almost no configuration needed!
Secondly, this tool can be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio. There is a tutorial artical available. So buid and debug your application in the same IDE.
If you give a little time to try this, you will like it.
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JJR
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1104
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Well, it looks like a very useful program, Shawn. Thanks for the contribution.
(I'm still without my Laptop, I'm afraid) |
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Shawn Liu
Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 104 Location: Shanghai, China
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:12 am Post subject: |
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JJR wrote: | This is good, Shawn. But I think "Build", a project well developed on this site by Derek, accomplishes these tasks already. It's actively developed and one of the best tools for D so far. Have you had a look at it yet? Does your tool differ from it somehow?
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I tried to build DWT project with Derek's Build. The compile is passed of course. But how can I specify the libraries and resource file to be linked together? I didn't find an example of response file. |
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JJR
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 1104
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:42 am Post subject: |
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Hmm... I don't know. Maybe you can ask Derek in the build forum. |
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