dub configuration for external dependencies

[Shammah Chancellor via Digitalmars-d]

I'm not sure where the appropriate place to ask about dub is. There
doesn't seem to be a newsgroup for it?

Anyways, I am wondering what the proper way to deal with external
non-D dependencies is. For example, libd-llvm uses a lot of libraries
from LLVM whose library path changes from machine to machine, and some
of the list of 30 libraries changes as well. They have a nice
configuration tool llvm-config which emits ldflags which are very nice
to use from makefiles but I don't see any way to obtain this
information from within the dub.json.

Do I essentially need to make an autotools-esque script to generate the
dub.json? That seems to be at odds with the ability to register
packages.

-S

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 12:26:14 UTC, Shammah Chancellor

Post by Shammah Chancellor via Digitalmars-d
I'm not sure where the appropriate place to ask about dub is.
There doesn't seem to be a newsgroup for it?
Anyways, I am wondering what the proper way to deal with
external non-D dependencies is. For example, libd-llvm uses a
lot of libraries from LLVM whose library path changes from
machine to machine, and some of the list of 30 libraries
changes as well. They have a nice configuration tool
llvm-config which emits ldflags which are very nice to use from
makefiles but I don't see any way to obtain this information
from within the dub.json.
Do I essentially need to make an autotools-esque script to
generate the dub.json? That seems to be at odds with the
ability to register packages.
-S

I'm not sure what the answer is but there is an official forum
which might yield some useful information.

http://forum.rejectedsoftware.com/groups/rejectedsoftware.dub/