Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-27 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-02-26 12:10, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: On 24.02.2011 19:41, Walter Bright wrote: The nice thing is reduction in half of the resulting binary size. That's indeed nice! The unnecessarily huge size of binaries created with D / Optlink was in fact something hindering me to use D at all!

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-26 Thread Sebastian Schuberth
On 24.02.2011 19:41, Walter Bright wrote: The nice thing is reduction in half of the resulting binary size. That's indeed nice! The unnecessarily huge size of binaries created with D / Optlink was in fact something hindering me to use D at all! I'm sure that linker is doing it by writing

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-26 Thread Michel Fortin
On 2011-02-26 06:10:19 -0500, Sebastian Schuberth sschube...@gmail.com said: On 24.02.2011 19:41, Walter Bright wrote: The nice thing is reduction in half of the resulting binary size. That's indeed nice! The unnecessarily huge size of binaries created with D / Optlink was in fact something

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Schuberth
On 18.02.2011 11:00, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The nice thing is reduction in half of the resulting binary size. That's indeed nice! The unnecessarily huge size of binaries created with D / Optlink was in fact something hindering me to use D at all! -- Sebastian Schuberth

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-24 Thread Walter Bright
Sebastian Schuberth wrote: On 18.02.2011 11:00, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The nice thing is reduction in half of the resulting binary size. That's indeed nice! The unnecessarily huge size of binaries created with D / Optlink was in fact something hindering me to use D at all! I'm sure that

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-24 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 24.02.2011 21:41, Walter Bright wrote: Sebastian Schuberth wrote: On 18.02.2011 11:00, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The nice thing is reduction in half of the resulting binary size. That's indeed nice! The unnecessarily huge size of binaries created with D / Optlink was in fact something

Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
The fresh beta of universal linker UniLink has arrived, with exciting new features. Quoting the changelog: + Preliminary support of Digital Mars D language compiler. + The debug info processing in old CV format added (dmc, dmd, watcom, old ml). And it works! At least for the first part. I

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/18/11 4:00 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The fresh beta of universal linker UniLink has arrived, with exciting new features. Wow. If this works out, it is the closest thing in real life to Deux ex machina. We were pretty much out of options. Andrei

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/18/11 4:00 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The fresh beta of universal linker UniLink has arrived, with exciting new features. Wow. If this works out, it is the closest thing in real life to Deux ex machina. We were pretty much out of options. Andrei

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article On 2/18/11 4:00 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The fresh beta of universal linker UniLink has arrived, with exciting new features. Wow. If this works out, it is the closest thing in real life to Deux ex machina. We

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/18/11 9:42 AM, dsimcha wrote: == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article On 2/18/11 4:00 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The fresh beta of universal linker UniLink has arrived, with exciting new features. Wow. If this works out, it is the closest thing in

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 18.02.2011 16:41, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: On 2/18/11 9:42 AM, dsimcha wrote: == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article On 2/18/11 4:00 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The fresh beta of universal linker UniLink has arrived, with exciting new features.

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Trass3r (u...@known.com)'s article Sounds fantastic, but what about those rumors that Unilink will become commercial sometime? Well, IMHO the intermediate solution would be to just get DMD to output Win64 OMF object files for now, and cross the linking bridge when we come to it.

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Trass3r
Well, IMHO the intermediate solution would be to just get DMD to output Win64 OMF object files for now Hopefully we won't have to wait too long!

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
Is there even such a thing as Win64 OMF?

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/18/11 9:48 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote: Am 18.02.2011 16:41, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: On 2/18/11 9:42 AM, dsimcha wrote: == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article On 2/18/11 4:00 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The fresh beta of universal linker UniLink has

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:35:17 -0500, Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote: On 18.02.2011 23:15, notna wrote: Am I the only one getting a virus warning as soon as I try to unpack the ZIP file? This one is found within the binary: TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen Ouch, that creepy. My McAfee

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread notna
Yes, I've Avira AntiVir. I'm quite happy with it since years and it's kind od common here in Germany... Thanks a lot for your help, I'll send them the file and the log... Btw, also thanks for the tool. It really sounds great! On 18.02.2011 21:35, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 18.02.2011 23:15,

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread Trass3r
Am I the only one getting a virus warning as soon as I try to unpack the ZIP file? This one is found within the binary: TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen Yep, Antivir is pretty paranoid and fires up even if an exe is only compressed.

Re: Alternative linker win32/64

2011-02-18 Thread dsimcha
On 2/18/2011 2:28 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Is there even such a thing as Win64 OMF? Ok, maybe there isn't. I just assumed there was. The bottom line is that it makes sense to get DMD to generate the 64-bit object files first so that people with alternative linkers can use it in 64 mode,