DBS - D Build System

What is this?

This is a build system for the D Programming Language. It is very simple and probably will never compete with the bigger ones, like DSSS. I just wrote it for fun and as a learning effort.

License

DBS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

DBS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with DBS. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Installation

Compile DBS with make or manually with

dmd -odbuild/ -ofbin/dbs -Isrc/ src/*.d

Then copy the executable bin/dbs to your path or call it from your project root. For temporary testing, you can add the bin/ directory to your path environment variable like this:

PATH=$PATH":"$PWD"/bin"

Usage

Configure the targets in DBuildFile (see DBuildFile Format). Then call dbs from your project root. For more usage information, run dbs --help.

## DBuildFile Format

# Comments look like this

compiler: DMD
libraryPath: "lib/"
binaryPath: "bin/"
default: derp

Dependency {
    name: sfml

    # optional, if not provided, uses only `name`
    libraries: sfml-audio sfml-graphics sfml-network sfml-system sfml-window
}

External {
    name: delerict
    command: cd externals/Derelict3/build; rdmd derelict.d

    # optional, see `Dependency`
    libraries: DerelictAL DerelictFT DerelictGL3 DerelictGLFW3 DerelictIL DerelictUtil

    # can be space-seperated list
    libraryPath: externals/Derelict3/lib/

    # can be space-seperated list
    includePath: externals/Derelict3/import/
}

Target {
    name: derp

    # can be a directory or a list of files
    files: derp/

    # automatically generated from `files` if not provided and `files`
    # is a directory
    documentRoot: derp/

    # StaticLibrary|SharedLibrary|Executable
    type: StaticLibrary

    # If not found, a system library is assumed (a dependency object
    # will automatically be created)
    depends: luajit-5.1 dl curl luad orange delerict
}