/// <reference path="..." /> ignored, resulting in invalid --outFile order of files

[Janne252]

TypeScript Version: 2.2.0-dev.20161120

Code
Full source code can be found at Janne252/jannengine

Expected behavior:
/// <reference path="./baseRenderable.ts" /> defined in polygon.ts should make sure that baseRenderable.ts is appended to the output file BEFORE polygon.ts.

Actual behavior:
polygon.ts is appended to the output file before baseRenderable.ts, which results in the ever so annoying Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'prototype' of undefined error.

Here is a part of the tsc output generated by the tsconfig.json entry "listFiles" set to true:

.../jannengine/src/system/engine/inputProvider.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/event/eventHandlerCallbackBind.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/event/eventHandler.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/helpers/math.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/vector2d.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/size.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/random.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/color.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/padding.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/range/range.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/component/range/xyRange.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/drawing/polygon.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/drawing/line/lineCap.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/drawing/line/lineJoin.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/drawing/line/line.ts
.../jannengine/src/system/drawing/baseRenderable.ts

As you can see, polygon.ts is added before baseRenderable.ts even though polygon.ts defines baseRenderable.ts as its dependency.

An example of the generated .js file can be found in janne252/jannengine/js/combined_sample

I'm aware that this issue is related to #5207. However to my understanding my code should work, according to the documentation about How do I control file ordering in combined output. To me it seems that the /// <reference path="..." /> entries in my code are completely ignored because the resulting output file is identical with and without the /// <reference path="..." /> entries in the code files.

[Janne252]

Well, is there anything that can be done to fix this? Unless I'm mistaken, the Triple-Slash Directives are not working at all.

[Janne252]

F*** me, there was a circle reference in my source code. BaseRenderable requires Line and Line requires BaseRenderable. Whoops.

[mhegazy]

I would not use /// <reference path="..." /> for this specific reason. i would instead use files or include in your tsconfig.json. a flat list is much easier to debug than a graph of links between files.

[Janne252]

@mhegazy Fortunately that wasn't the issue after all, I had accidentally created a situation where A requires B and B requires A. Unfortunately it too way too long to notice.

Thanks for the reply though!