4 files changed, 47 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/nix/mkDub.nix b/nix/mkDub.nix
index 8f4014b..2a6570f 100644
--- a/nix/mkDub.nix
+++ b/nix/mkDub.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 { pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {},
   stdenv ? pkgs.stdenv,
-  ldc ? pkgs.ldc,
+  ldc ? null,
+  dcompiler ? pkgs.ldc,
   dub ? pkgs.dub
 }:
+assert dcompiler != null;
 with stdenv;
 let
   # Filter function to remove the .dub package folder from src
@@ -16,7 +18,7 @@ let
   fromDub = dubDep: mkDerivation rec {
     name = "${src.name}-${version}";
     version = rev-to-version dubDep.fetch.rev;
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ ldc dub ];
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ dcompiler dub ];
     src = dep2src dubDep;
     buildPhase = ''
       runHook preBuild
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ let
   # The target output of the Dub package
   targetOf = package: "${package.targetPath or "."}/${package.targetName or package.name}";
   # Remove reference to build tools and library sources
-  disallowedReferences = deps: [ ldc dub ] ++ builtins.map dep2src deps;
+  disallowedReferences = deps: [ dcompiler dub ] ++ builtins.map dep2src deps;
   removeExpr = refs: ''remove-references-to ${lib.concatMapStrings (ref: " -t ${ref}") refs}'';
 in {
   inherit fromDub;
@@ -52,10 +54,10 @@ in {
     ...
   } @ attrs: stdenv.mkDerivation (attrs // {
     pname = package.name;
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ ldc dub pkgs.removeReferencesTo ] ++ nativeBuildInputs;
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ dcompiler dub pkgs.removeReferencesTo ] ++ nativeBuildInputs;
     disallowedReferences = disallowedReferences deps;
     passthru = passthru // {
-      inherit dub ldc pkgs;
+      inherit dub dcompiler pkgs;
     };
     src = lib.cleanSourceWith {
       filter = filterDub;
@@ -68,7 +70,18 @@ in {
       runHook preBuild
       export HOME=$PWD
       ${lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n" dub-add-local deps}
-      dub build --compiler=ldc2 --build=release --combined --skip-registry=all
+      for dc_ in dmd ldmd2 gdmd; do
+        echo "check for D compiler $dc_"
+        dc=$(type -P $dc_ || echo "")
+        if [ ! "$dc" == "" ]; then
+          break
+        fi
+      done
+      if [ "$dc" == "" ]; then
+        exit "Error: could not find D compiler"
+      fi
+      echo "$dc_ used as D compiler to build $pname"
+      dub build --compiler=$dc --build=release --combined --skip-registry=all
       runHook postBuild
     '';
     checkPhase = ''
diff --git a/nix/pkglst/meson-pkgs.nix b/nix/pkglst/meson-pkgs.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0066e34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/pkglst/meson-pkgs.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
+let
+  dub2nix-src = fetchTarball {
+    url = "https://github.com/lionello/dub2nix/archive/master.tar.gz";
+  };
+  dub2nix = (import dub2nix-src) { inherit pkgs; };
+in
+with pkgs; [
+  nix
+  meson
+  ninja
+  dub
+  ldc
+  sqlite
+  nix-prefetch-git
+  validatePkgConfig
+]
diff --git a/nix/shell-packages.nix b/nix/pkglst/shell-pkgs.nix
index 9e40e24..7587c02 100644
--- a/nix/shell-packages.nix
+++ b/nix/pkglst/shell-pkgs.nix
@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ with pkgs; [
   sqlite
   nix-prefetch-git
   validatePkgConfig
+  jq
 ]
diff --git a/nix/shell/meson.nix b/nix/shell/meson.nix
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8c06eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/shell/meson.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
+pkgs.mkShell {
+  buildInputs = with pkgs; [
+    (import ../pkgs/meson-pkgs.nix { inherit pkgs; })
+  ];
+  shellHook = ''
+    meson setup --wipe build && ninja -v -C build
+  '';
+}
+# nix-shell nix/shell/meson.nix