"Manu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Lame. Surely Optlink is not the only linker in the world...? > I'm also surprised that someone capable of writing a compiler and > optimiser > for a complex language isn't capable of writing a linker. The link must > surely be the simplest+easiest of those 3 jobs...?
He (ie, Walter) *did* write Optlink, that's why DMD/Win uses it :/ (And OMF wasn't such a problem back when Optlink was written. AIUI, not being an expert in the matter myself, the decline of Borland seems to be one of the main reasons for OMF's demise.) >Why not use this instead of Optlink if it works? >I'll check it out... though VisualD doesn't support this. ... > VisualD doesn't support those compilers (yet). > Yea, GDC and LDC were lagging pretty far behind until only fairly recently, and we didn't discover unilink until not real long ago either, so D many projects have been slow in supporting them. But yea, as a community we probably do need to make sure to start supporting them better. >> 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. > > Indeed. The main reason for my post is just to complain, and add my voice > ;) > I'd like to insist that this is basically unacceptable... it should be > prioritised. > vote++
