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Adds -makedeps dependency tracking to the ninja dc rule so ninja
can track implicit dependencies (string imports, headers) and
trigger incremental rebuilds correctly.

Also fixes a bug where -J flags for stringImportPaths were not
being emitted, which would silently break any project using
string imports.

Test: builds a project with a string import, runs it to verify
output matches the imported file content, modifies the file,
rebuilds, and asserts the output changed — proving dependency
tracking works end-to-end.

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✅ PR OK, no changes in deprecations or warnings

Total deprecations: 0

Total warnings: 0

Build statistics:

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 executable size=5722856 bin/dub
 rough build time=53s
Full build output
DUB version 1.41.0, built on Mar  1 2026
LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.42.0):
  based on DMD v2.112.1 and LLVM 21.1.8
  built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.42.0)
  Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  Host CPU: znver4
  https://dlang.org - https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC


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   Upgrading project in /home/runner/work/dub/dub/
    Starting Performing "release" build using /opt/hostedtoolcache/dc/ldc2-1.42.0/x64/ldc2-1.42.0-linux-x86_64/bin/ldc2 for x86_64.
    Building dub 1.42.0-beta.1+commit.10.gd30f999d: building configuration [application]
     Linking dub
STAT:statistics (-before, +after)
STAT:executable size=5722856 bin/dub
STAT:rough build time=53s

@ghost ghost changed the title fix: emit -J flags for stringImportPaths and add behavioral makedeps …fix: emit -J flags for stringImportPaths and add behavioral makedeps test fix: add -makedeps tracking and -J flag support to ninja generator Jul 8, 2026
f.writeln(" command = ", compiler, " $flags -c $in -of=$out");
f.writeln(" command = ", compiler, " $flags -c $in -of=$out -makedeps=$out.dep");
f.writeln(" depfile = $out.dep");
f.writeln(" deps = gcc");

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what is this line for?

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deps = gcc tells Ninja to parse the depfile in gcc/Makefile format (vs MSVC's /showIncludes). Combined with depfile = $out.dep, it lets Ninja pick up implicit dependencies from the -makedeps output — e.g. string imports like views/data.txt — so those trigger rebuilds too, not just the direct source file. This is validated across Windows too, not just Linux — the behavioral test passes on 8 different Windows compiler configs (dmd 2.100–latest, ldc 1.30–master); the only Windows failure is an unrelated LNK1318 linker flake in a different test.

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