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dmd.mars

This modules defines related utilities needed for arguments parsing, path manipulation, etc... This file is not shared with other compilers which use the DMD front-end.
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Source mars.d

void logo();
Print DMD's logo on stdout
void printInternalFailure(FILE* stream);
Print DMD's logo with more debug information and error-reporting pointers.
Parameters:
FILE* stream output stream to print the information on
void usage();
Print DMD's usage message on stdout
void getenv_setargv(const(char)* envvalue, Strings* args);
Parses an environment variable containing command-line flags and append them to args.
This function is used to read the content of DFLAGS. Flags are separated based on spaces and tabs.
Parameters:
const(char)* envvalue The content of an environment variable
Strings* args Array to append the flags to, if any.
const(char)[] parse_arch_arg(Strings* args, const(char)[] arch);
Parse command line arguments for the last instance of -m32, -m64, -m32mscoff to detect the desired architecture.
Parameters:
Strings* args Command line arguments
const(char)[] arch Default value to use for architecture. Should be "32" or "64"
Returns:
"32", or "64" if the "-m32", "-m64" flags were passed, respectively. If they weren't, return arch.
const(char)[] parse_conf_arg(Strings* args);
Parse command line arguments for the last instance of -conf=path.
Parameters:
Strings* args Command line arguments
Returns:
The 'path' in -conf=path, which is the path to the config file to use
void setDefaultLibrary(ref Param params, const ref Target target);
Set the default and debug libraries to link against, if not already set
Must be called after argument parsing is done, as it won't override any value. Note that if -defaultlib= or -debuglib= was used, we don't override that either.
void flushMixins();
we want to write the mixin expansion file also on error, but there are too many ways to terminate dmd (e.g. fatal() which calls exit(EXIT_FAILURE)), so we can't rely on scope(exit) ... in tryMain() actually being executed so we add atexit(&flushMixins); for those fatal exits (with the GC still valid)
bool parseCommandLine(const ref Strings arguments, const size_t argc, ref Param params, ref Strings files, ref Target target);
Parse command line arguments.
Prints message(s) if there are errors.
Parameters:
Strings arguments command line arguments
size_t argc argument count
Param params set to result of parsing arguments
Strings files set to files pulled from arguments
Target target more things set to result of parsing arguments
Returns:
true if errors in command line
Modules createModules(ref Strings files, ref Strings libmodules, const ref Target target);
Creates the list of modules based on the files provided
Files are dispatched in the various arrays (global.params.{ddocfiles,dllfiles,jsonfiles,etc...}) according to their extension. Binary files are added to libmodules.
Parameters:
Strings files File names to dispatch
Strings libmodules Array to which binaries (shared/static libs and object files) will be appended
Target target target system
Returns:
An array of path to D modules
Module moduleWithEmptyMain();
Returns:
a compiled module (semantic3) containing an empty main() function, for the -main flag