[Derek Parnell]

Because I've made some major changes to the source, and because I haven't got a Unix or GDC environment to test things out, I'm making available a beta edition of the next version.

My testing so far in a Windows environment seems to indicate that its working but I'd really appreciate some Unix people giving it a shakedown. If you are going to test it for me, can you please let me know. That way I can know to wait for some feedback from you before releasing into the wild.

http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/build-beta-2.08.zip

This zip file just contains the source files; no doc updates yet.

The changes are summarized here...

** FIX: "thanks to teqdruid": In Unix environments, any pragma(link, <name>) statements were not sending the correct syntax to the compiler's command line. The "<name>" is now prefixed with "-L-l" for Unix systems.

** FIX: "thanks to Carlos": In Unix environments, any "-version" switch on the Utility's command line was not being converted to the correct Unix format of "-fversion...". So now, if the Build tool gets either "-version..." or "-fversion=..." on its command line, it will recognise it as a 'Version' request for the compiler and output it on the command line in the correct format for the environment it is running in, namely "-fversion..." for GNU (gdc) and "-version..." for Windows.

Note: The same applies to the "-debug..." and "-fdebug..." switches.

** FIX: The pragma(nolink) was being ignored under some circumstances. Now it splits the compilation phase from the linking phase, and only includes the non-nolink files on the linker's command line.

** FIX: "thanks to kris": 'debug' statements were not being taken into account when examining code for import statements.

** FIX: 'debug' and 'version' levels are now being taken into account.

** FIX: 'debug' and 'version' values being set inside a source file were being made global rather than module scoped.

** ENH: The path of any source file that imports a module will be added to the list of root paths to search for module source files. This means that you can now have module source files referenced relative to the source file that imports them. This is the new default behaviour but it can be turned off by using the new -noautoimport switch or for individual files by placing them inside parenthesis.

** ENH: New switch -noautoimport is used to turn off the automatic adding of search roots based on the path of the source files being compiled.

WARNING: The utility only does a single scan of each source file and thus if an file sets a 'debug' or 'version' value after a function which uses that value, it will be ignored. You are requested to ensure that all your 'debug' and 'version' setting is done prior to the first module member.
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[JJR]

Wow! Thanks, Derek.

Looks like you made all the fixes you said you would.

I'll give it a try on windows and linux.

-JJR

[Carlos]

Compiling with DMD 0.125, gcc 3.4.2, Ubuntu Linux:

[h3r3tic]

[teqdruid]

[h3r3tic]

[Derek Parnell]

Ok, I've updated the ZIP file. Thanks.

I forgot to define vLibPaths in the Unix version. And in some code I cut&pasted from source.d to build.d I forgot to rename a variable.

[Derek Parnell]

[teqdruid]

I just downloaded and tested it, and it doesn't appear that the pragma(link) bug is fixed. When I try to compile my program against Mango's ICU with pragma(link, dl); in it, I get:

[Derek Parnell]

[teqdruid]

[Derek Parnell]

[teqdruid]

Well... it compiled, and I got something interestingly difference this time:

[Derek Parnell]

[teqdruid]

OK. We're getting real close here. Now I'm getting: