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On Monday, 30 May 2011 at 15:01:34 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 30.05.2011 16:57, Trass3r wrote:
>> Am 30.05.2011, 04:09 Uhr, schrieb Jeff Slutter 
>> <MrMustard@gmail.com>:
>>> 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).
>>
>> Good luck with that. DLLs are no problem but static libraries 
>> are another story.
>> objconv has never done the job for me. I'm surprised that it 
>> worked in your test.
>> And compiling the code with dmc is a real PITA.
>>
>> Maybe dmd will finally switch to COFF output in the course of 
>> 64Bit transition but even then the 2 different compilers might 
>> generate incompatible code.
>>
>> There is a linker named Unilink though, which is reportedly 
>> able to link OMF and COFF files out of the box.
>> But it doesn't even have a homepage, only an ftp server that's 
>> hard to find. Plus it's closed source so you can't assess 
>> whether it will continue to be developed, if it becomes 
>> commercial one day etc.
>>
>
> It was me who brought it Unilink out of infernal abyss :)  See 
> also:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/Alternative_linker_win32_64_20086.html
>
> Seriously I still suggest to try it out, and at any rate author 
> showed quite a motivation and provided full D support in no 
> time.
> (there is little problem that he won't use CV debug symbols... 
> and UniLink _converts_ them to Borland's TDS format)
> Still it's now possible to use any linker with VisualD, using 
> 'compile only' option (in fact I just tried it out myself).
>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> GDC shares the frontend with dmd, so it will benefit from any 
>> FE bug fixed there.
>> Regarding the glue code, it is currently maintained by Iain 
>> alone. He tends to be quite active though.
>>
>
> Right and I've seen this cool option 'use other compiler' in 
> recent VisualD with textbox for command line. So GDC & LDC 
> support is almost there.
>
>>
>> OT: You are R&D and still use Windoze? ;)

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