The problem: On windows, DMD uses the Optlink linker. Optlink only
supports OMF right now (OMF used to be commonly used by Borland, IIRC).
Optlink was written entirely in asm so changing it is difficult. But
Walter has been,
piece-by-piece, porting it to C (and then he'll port it to D).
I say get rid of that freakin' dinosaur. Pull requests are already piling
up, we can't afford losing more time.
(This is issue also happens to be the main thing blocking 64-bit on
Windows.)
Not quite true. You need 64Bit: object format, linker, librarian, debug
info, compiler.
- Recompile the libs using DMC (the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler). That
will result in an OMF lib file that can be used with DMD.
Did you ever try that?? You can't even mention that, let alone recommend
it.
- Use the Digital Mars COFF2OMF tool to convert to lib to OMF.
Unfortunately, the tool isn't free, but IIRC it's inexpensive.
Doesn't matter. You already have to pay enough by having to deal with that
OMF crap.
If you feel this is all still a big pain in the ass: Don't worry,
everyone here agrees with you, and the situation will not remain like
this forever.
I'm sceptical.
