On Monday, 18 June 2012 at 17:51:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/17/2012 3:34 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
1. DMD can only output OMF binaries
2. DMD cannot output 64bit code for Windows
3. DMD is not compatible with the MSVC linker or runtime
I intend to fix all of those, at least for 64 bit Windows, in
the near term.
COFF and 64 bit support for windows are on the top of my wish
list for D, so this is great news! A few questions:
What do you mean by 'at least for 64 bit windows'? No COFF
support when targeting, or building on, 32 bit?
'in the near term': I know it's a hard question, but does that
mean a few months, or more like a year?
Perhaps we could look into writing a COFF linker in D to replace
optlink, that way OMF support can be dropped completely. It'd be
cool to have part of the toolchain written in D itself. It's not
a high priority though, since the MS linker comes with the free
Express editions of Visual Studio.
Anyways, this is really exiting. It'll greatly ease use of C
libraries on windows, even open-source ones, because most don't
compile out-of-the-box with dmc.
