DUB-ADD-PATH(1)

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✨ DUB-ADD-PATH(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to dub-add-path — a page from the D Language Foundation's manual set and honestly one of the easiest little glow-ups you can give your build setup 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

dub-add-path — adds a default package search path. that's it. that's the whole vibe 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dub add-path <path> OPTIONS...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so you run this and it adds a default package search path, periodt. every single direct sub folder of that <path> gets searched for package descriptions and gets made available as packages ✨

and here's the tea: using this command has the equivalent effect as calling dub add-local on each of the sub folders manually. so like, you could do it by hand… but why would you 😭

any packages you register with add-path get preferred over packages downloaded from the package registry when dependencies are being searched during a build operation. homegrown packages stay winning 👑

okay and now the part everyone always asks about — where does the version come from? the version of the packages is determined by one of these, in this order:

  • for GIT working copies, the last tag (git describe) is used to determine the version 🏷️
  • if the package contains a "version" field in the package description, this is used 📝
  • if neither of those apply, ~master is assumed 🙈

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • --system — DEPRECATED: use --cache=system instead. like, she still works but she's retired, use the new one bestie 🫶

🌈 COMMON OPTIONS 🌈

see dub(1) — all the shared stuff lives over there 💜

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

  • 0 — DUB succeeded. slay, we ate 🎉
  • 1 — usage errors, unknown command line flags 💀
  • 2 — package not found, package failed to load, miscellaneous error 😭

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • dub.sdl
  • dub.json

(the package description files, iykyk 📂)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (c) 1999-2026 by The D Language Foundation 🫶

🧚 ONLINE DOCUMENTATION 🧚

http://code.dlang.org/docs/commandline ⟨⟩

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

and that's the whole page, no cap 💖 brought to you by The D Language Foundation, dated 2026-08-16 — mwah, go add some paths and thrive, bestie 🦋✨

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