On 12.02.2011 16:32, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Ok, bumping this up with the latest news from UniLink developers:
<quote>
Ok, we release it's as D extension in next release.
Best regards,
UniLink
</quote>
That's just plain awesome ;)
yeah, it would be great to be able to link against anything else in
the windows world.
I just tried unilink on a small program compiled with dmd-2.051 and it
worked alright. Surprisingly, the executable is less than half the
size of the optlink generated file. Comparing the map files, it does
not seem to reference less symbols (the corrupted map files written by
optlink do not allow perfect comparison), so maybe there is a rather
large alignment used by optlink?
Same things here, as to the executable size it might be some smart
technology they plan to sell ;)
Unfortunately, unilink does not support the debug information emitted
by dmd:
UniLink v1.07 [beta] (build 1.19)
Warning: CV(1)-style debug-info not supported
Warning: Linked modules don't contain source-level debug information
Yeah, that spoils the party...
BTW: The authors seem to plan to make unilink a commercial product.
Here's a quote from the help file: "If current version of UniLink is
beta (all other versions are commercial and can't be used w/o
license), keep in mind, any beta will "yaff" after ~1.5 month of
expired."
I've seen that "yaff" :) Merely a message in console that states that
your beta linker is out of date, functionality not crippled. More
interestingly I haven't seen any commercial versions yet..
--
Dmitry Olshansky
