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On Monday, 30 May 2011 at 02:13:32 UTC, Jeff Slutter wrote:
> I'm just starting out in my journey of R&D/evaluation of using 
> D, as a possible future development platform, for my team at 
> work. I like a lot of what I see!
>
> Currently we do all our development in Visual Studio, using 
> C/C++ (and C# for some tools), and it is definitely the 
> 'comfort zone' for the team. My goal is to reduce the learning 
> curves, and new tools they'll have to pick up. The Visual D 
> project is of great interest to me.
>
> One of the things that's important to us is being able to link 
> against some existing C/C++ static libraries (built with VS 
> 2008, so PE COFF format). In some light testing I was able to 
> link a D2 project with a C/C++ Static library project in 
> VS/VisualD with DMD. I had to use the objconv.exe tool, as the 
> Digital Mars tool coff2omf.exe seems to be too old to work with 
> the newer MS generated libraries. Unfortunately, it looks like 
> objconv will always strip out debugging information, and while 
> I had successful link and execution, I could only debug the D 
> code, there was no debugging information for the C/C++ code.
>
> I suppose if the C/C++ code was in a DLL and D referenced the 
> import lib, things would work much better, but there are some 
> cases where our applications really need to come as a single 
> executable and not have dependent DLLs along for the ride.
>
> Am I missing some sort of process or tool to make this all 
> happen how I want? I want to be able to link C/C++ static 
> libraries, generated with Visual Studio, with DMD, and maintain 
> debugging information. Yes, I know, that is not a simple 
> request. :)
>
> For what it's worth, using GDC and GCC/MingW (TDM), I was able 
> to build and debug a D/C/C++ mixed executable. I had to use GDB 
> (though WinGDB works just dandy), but the downside is I'm not 
> using Visual D (unless Visual D supports GDC??), nor DMD. DMD 
> seems that it would be more supported and stable right now than 
> GDC, which seems to play catch up. I worry that, as a user of 
> GDC, hitting a compiler bug, would take longer to get an 
> official fix for, than it would for DMD.
>
> Thanks everyone...
> Jeff

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