Thread overview
[Issue 15118] Have dmd on Win32 look for optlink.exe instead of link.exe
Sep 26, 2015
Walter Bright
Sep 26, 2015
Manu
Sep 27, 2015
Martin Nowak
Jan 09, 2017
Walter Bright
Oct 11, 2019
Dlang Bot
Oct 20, 2019
Dlang Bot
September 26, 2015
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15118

--- Comment #1 from Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> ---
(I mean also rename link.exe to be optlink.exe.)

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September 26, 2015
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15118

Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> ---
It never occurred to me that renaming a tool that has been around for 10s of years was a reasonable thing to expect ;)

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September 27, 2015
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15118

Martin Nowak <code@dawg.eu> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Martin Nowak <code@dawg.eu> ---
Sounds like a good idea now that we have more users with both toolchains installed. The binary is small enough to simply ship a copy for a while. See https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/149.

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January 09, 2017
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15118

Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

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           Keywords|                            |Optlink

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October 11, 2019
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15118

Dlang Bot <dlang-bot@dlang.rocks> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Dlang Bot <dlang-bot@dlang.rocks> ---
@rainers created dlang/dmd pull request #10468 "fix issue 15118 - Win32: default to using optlink.exe with the Digital Mars toolchain" fixing this issue:

- fix issue 15118 - Win32: default to using optlink.exe with the Digital Mars toolchain

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10468

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October 20, 2019
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15118

Dlang Bot <dlang-bot@dlang.rocks> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #5 from Dlang Bot <dlang-bot@dlang.rocks> ---
dlang/dmd pull request #10468 "fix issue 15118 - Win32: default to using optlink.exe with the Digital Mars toolchain" was merged into stable:

- 41e43411112fa1091d50f5645a56507e48bd2b64 by Rainer Schuetze:
  fix issue 15118 - Win32: default to using optlink.exe with the Digital Mars
toolchain

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10468

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