DUB: Packages and Build Configuration

45.1 dub.json / dub.sdl

{
    "name": "myapp",
    "description": "A sample D application",
    "authors": ["Your Name"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "targetType": "executable",
    "dependencies": {
        "vibe-d": "~>0.10.0",
        "mir-algorithm": "~>3.22"
    },
    "configurations": [
        { "name": "default" },
        { "name": "unittest", "dependencies": { "unit-threaded": "~>2.1" } }
    ],
    "buildTypes": {
        "profile-gc": { "buildOptions": ["debugInfo"], "dflags": ["-profile=gc"] }
    },
    "dflags-ldc": ["-mcpu=native"],
    "versions": ["EnableLogging"],
    "libs-posix": ["sqlite3"],
    "stringImportPaths": ["views"]
}

name "myapp"
dependency "vibe-d" version="~>0.10.0"
targetType "executable"
configuration "default" {}

45.2 Common Commands

Build types: debug (default), plain, release, release-debug, release-nobounds, unittest, docs, ddox, profile, profile-gc, cov, unittest-cov, syntax.

Registry: code.dlang.org. Publish by registering a GitHub/GitLab repo with semver tags.

Alternatives: reggae (meta-build), meson (native D support), CMake (cmake-d), plain makefiles.

dub init myapp -t vibe.d            # template project
dub build --build=release --compiler=ldc2
dub build --build=release-debug --arch=x86_64
dub run -- arg1 arg2
dub test
dub add mir-algorithm
dub upgrade                          # update dub.selections.json
dub fetch dfmt && dub run dfmt -- source/
dub describe                         # project info (JSON)
dub lint                             # D-Scanner
dub --single script.d                # single-file package
dub build --config=library