On 30/07/2014 8:58 p.m., Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 08:12:17 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
On 30/07/2014 7:03 p.m., Kagamin wrote:
Making dmd generate coff would make more sense.
+1
Most of the code should already be present in dmd, which makes it far
crazier not to.
What makes it craziest is that there's a COFF32 branch lying around that
nobody merges:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]?page=9#post-llldfc:242q6p:241:40digitalmars.com
It would be a far better use of Jonathan's time to get COFF32 merged and
obsolete Optlink altogether.
If we obsoleted the OMF format output we would need to have a free and
distributed with PE-COFF linker. If we can do this, I think Walter might
go along with it.
Unless of course we could convince Microsoft to have a download just for
the linker. We could download that in e.g. the installer. Would be
better than a full install.
