I can not make anything of the Visual C++ produced .obj with the Microsoft provides docs. If that
isn't typically Microsoft ... How to corrupt any standard by "slightly modifying" it .... I will
look further to dig up some meaningful info.
Amusingly, Microsofts own SDK dumpbin tool says
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 9.00.30729.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
File Type: ANONYMOUS OBJECT
ANON OBJECT HEADER VALUES
1 version
14C machine (x86)
545CC084 time date stamp Fri Nov 07 04:52:20 2014
ClassID: {0CB3FE38-D9A5-4DAB-AC9B-D6B6222653C2}
3F5F size
0 flags
It perfectly well understands FPC generated .o files, but not Visual C++ generated .obj files.
Unbelievable.
However, objconv <http://www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv> sheds some light on
the issue
Whole program optimization intermediate file for MS compiler.
Undocumented
and indeed the Debug version of the same .obj file has a normal COFF header, is recognized by the
FPC linker (and produces FPC internal error 200602232).
Anyway, I think the workaround for the "Illegal Coff Magic" linker error is to recompile with
Visual C++ turning whole-program-optimization off. It suggest to document this somewhere. Or to
improve the error message in compiler/ogcoff.pas for "Whole program optimization intermediate file
for MS compiler. Undocumented" files.
I still have to investigate the internal error 200602232.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os
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