Would APEs work with D?

[Iain Buclaw]

On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 11:08:33 UTC, Raimondo Mancino wrote:
>
> My guess is that we could produce a portable executable with 
> Cosmopolitan and thus write something like this in our hello.d:
>
> ```d
> /* I am not sure how would we compile this, but
>  * I guess it's going to be something like:
> gdc -g -O -static \
>   -fno-pie -fuse-ld=bfd -mno-red-zone
>   -fno-druntime
>   -o hello.com hello.d
>   -Wl,--oformat=binary -Wl,--gc-sections 
> -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000 -fuse-ld=bfd \
>   -Wl,-T,ape.lds
>   crt.o ape.o cosmopolitan.a
>  */
>
> What do you think about it?

The command would be pretty much the same as gcc (`-nostdinc 
-nostdlib`), but instead of `-include cosmopolitan.h`, you'd pass 
a cosmopolitan binding module (importC may solve the need for 
that), and a minimal (possibly empty) object.d to satisfy the 
compiler's need to have an object module.