Trass3r wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>> Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> Well, anyway I can mail him and hope that he will do it just out of curiosity, what's yours relevant email then?
>>> May I just as well tell him that you are interested in it or anything?
>>>
>> My offer is if there is something specific about the OMF files generated that I can explain to him, I'd be happy to do so. My mail is walter followed by digitalmars.com.
> 
> Any news here?

No, I have not heard anything.

On 26.01.2011 21:52, Walter Bright wrote:
> Trass3r wrote:
>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>> Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>>> Well, anyway I can mail him and hope that he will do it just out of curiosity, what's yours relevant email then?
>>>> May I just as well tell him that you are interested in it or anything?
>>>>
>>> My offer is if there is something specific about the OMF files generated that I can explain to him, I'd be happy to do so. My mail is walter followed by digitalmars.com.
>>
>> Any news here?
>
> No, I have not heard anything.

I've got their detailed report on the sample object file, and relayed it to Walter.
Something related to D's stance on  TLS it seems.
With me being middle man all this can take some extra time, but I don't mind.
The end result may still well worth it.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky

> I've got their detailed report on the sample object file, and relayed it to Walter.
> Something related to D's stance on  TLS it seems.
> With me being middle man all this can take some extra time, but I don't mind.
> The end result may still well worth it.

Hope so too.

I wonder why this tool isn't promoted in any way, no website etc.
I also wonder if he was willing to make it open-source. Then we could help support D and if it works someday, we can even include D symbol demangling :)

On 28.01.2011 13:21, Trass3r wrote:
> I wonder why this tool isn't promoted in any way, no website etc.
That's actually strange and funny in it's own right.
I got to this ftp only because I was 100% sure that tool existed, as a friend of mine suggested to use it instead of Borland's crappy linker few years ago.
> I also wonder if he was willing to make it open-source. Then we could help support D and if it works someday, we can even include D symbol demangling :)
First things first, we need it to fully support DMD. Then any political/licensing terms can be discussed.


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky

Just another thought:
dmd uses ld on linux, couldn't it use MinGW's ld on Windows?

On 2011-02-06 23:26, Trass3r wrote:
> Just another thought:
> dmd uses ld on linux, couldn't it use MinGW's ld on Windows?

MinGW's ld doesn't use the same object format as DMD/DMC

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/Jacob Carlborg

>> Just another thought:
>> dmd uses ld on linux, couldn't it use MinGW's ld on Windows?
>
> MinGW's ld doesn't use the same object format as DMD/DMC

I know, of course this would include discarding OMF.

I found this gem in digitalmars' bookshelf:

http://www.digitalmars.com/bibliography.html#fileformats

Ok, bumping this up with the latest news from UniLink developers:
<quote>

Ok, we release it's as D extension in next release.

Best regards,
 UniLink

</quote>

That's just plain awesome ;)

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Dmitry Olshansky