On 11 October 2012 14:35, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 10/10/2012 11:49 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Maybe it's time to update the old tool chain that we inherited form the 70s, but
this is a totally different discussion.

Writing a new linker for each platform is a major undertaking.

Well Microsoft's linker is obviously capable of finding lib details in the object files.
Iain almost sounded like he had a working theory for ld.
I know nothing of OSX. LLVM?