Am 30.05.2011, 04:09 Uhr, schrieb Jeff Slutter <mrmust...@gmail.com>:
One of the things that's important to us is being able to link against
some existing C/C++ static libraries (built with VS 2008, so PE COFF
format).
Good luck with that. DLLs are no problem but static libraries are another
story.
objconv has never done the job for me. I'm surprised that it worked in
your test.
And compiling the code with dmc is a real PITA.
Maybe dmd will finally switch to COFF output in the course of 64Bit
transition but even then the 2 different compilers might generate
incompatible code.
There is a linker named Unilink though, which is reportedly able to link
OMF and COFF files out of the box.
But it doesn't even have a homepage, only an ftp server that's hard to
find. Plus it's closed source so you can't assess whether it will continue
to be developed, if it becomes commercial one day etc.
For what it's worth, using GDC and GCC/MingW (TDM), I was able to build
and debug a D/C/C++ mixed executable. I had to use GDB (though WinGDB
works just dandy), but the downside is I'm not using Visual D (unless
Visual D supports GDC??), nor DMD. DMD seems that it would be more
supported and stable right now than GDC, which seems to play catch up. I
worry that, as a user of GDC, hitting a compiler bug, would take longer
to get an official fix for, than it would for DMD.
GDC shares the frontend with dmd, so it will benefit from any FE bug fixed
there.
Regarding the glue code, it is currently maintained by Iain alone. He
tends to be quite active though.
OT: You are R&D and still use Windoze? ;)
