feat: Standalone and language independant

[ryuukk]

Hello,

A bit like blink for windows, is it possible to make it standalone and language independent? meaning a mode that does no compilation and only work on the object level

https://github.com/crosire/blink (--no-compile mode)

I'm willing to participate in a bounty if needed

Thanks!

[ddovod]

Hello.
Probably yes, but this project forces you to use some specific compiler and linker flags that affects object files as well, so the compiler for your language should support similar features. Apart from that it's a matter of trials. Unfortunately I don't have time now to investigate this, but if you want to try it yourself, feel free to fork and experiment.

Some starting points:

• cmake/jet_live_setup.cmake - flags I'm talking about
• void Live::setupFileWatcher() and void Live::onFileChanged(const std::string& filepath) - rework to make it monitor for object file changes instead of sources
• Probably get rid of dependency checks since it's used to connect the code with the object files
• Also I'm not sure how to connect it to the host application since it operates on the process address space, one more thing to investigate with respect to your language

There's no much code in this project, you probably only want to be familiar with a couple of files, the main one is Live.cpp/hpp

[ryuukk]

I don't have much time either unfortunately, and C++ is not my cup of tea, so investigating would take me too much effort

I'll keep looking for an alternative, or perhaps stick to loading my game as a DLL for now