On 6/19/2012 7:16 AM, Rene Zwanenburg wrote:
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?
Right. Frankly, I think the future is all 64 bits. That future is already here
on the Mac, where supporting 32 bits seems more and more of a backwater.
'in the near term': I know it's a hard question, but does that mean a few
months, or more like a year?
On the order of months.
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.
I'd love to do that, but I can't spare the month or so to do it.
