Hi all,
After a long hiatus, I've decidede to pick up programming in D again and found out about Dub while researching how to use Ncurses. For this I made a sample hello world-app with dub init and listed ncurses-d (from the registry) as the dependency. Because of the lack of documentation, however, I'm not sure if what I'm doing is the right thing.
I do the following steps before ~/.dub is even created, and while I managed to get it to work, I thought Dub was supposed to find the correct paths for where Ncurses is installed.
My dub.json looks like:
{
"name": "game",
"description": "A game in D",
"copyright": "Copyright © 2014, Neal van Veen",
"authors": ["Neal van Veen"],
"license": "GPL-3.0",
"dependencies": {
"ncurses": "~master",
},
"sourcePaths": [
"src"
],
"importPaths": [
"lib/ncurses-master"
],
}
My problem is that I have ncurses locally fetch'd in lib/ncurses-master, while I was under the impression that I don't even need to do that as it's an external dependency that dub automatically fetches and puts in ~/.dub. If I do it that way (having ncurses in ~/.dub and losing the importPaths directive), dmd complains that it can't find the deimos.ncurses (from import deimos.ncurses; statement).
What am I doing wrong that dub run will fetch ncurses but won't add its dub directory path automatically to the package? I would have thought that it isn't necessary that I keep a local copy of the ncurses lib.
I hope someone can explain this to me, or otherwise tell me I don't understand the proper purpose for dub.
Thanks in advance,
Neal.
