On 30.05.2011 16:57, Trass3r wrote:
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.
It was me who brought it Unilink out of infernal abyss :) See also:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/Alternative_linker_win32_64_20086.html
Seriously I still suggest to try it out, and at any rate author showed
quite a motivation and provided full D support in no time.
(there is little problem that he won't use CV debug symbols... and
UniLink _converts_ them to Borland's TDS format)
Still it's now possible to use any linker with VisualD, using 'compile
only' option (in fact I just tried it out myself).
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.
Right and I've seen this cool option 'use other compiler' in recent
VisualD with textbox for command line. So GDC & LDC support is almost there.
OT: You are R&D and still use Windoze? ;)
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Dmitry Olshansky
