Linking with/Debugging static C/C++ libraries

[Jeff Slutter]

On 5/30/2011 10:57 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 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).

I will give it a try.

With the Borland TDS debug symbols, that means no debugging with
VisualD/Visual Studio right? (No CodeView, No PDB)


> 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.

I missed that, so that's exciting!