Linking C and D

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 16:12:13 UTC, monarch_dodra 
wrote:
> I'm trying to get the hello world of cross compiling working:

The short story is you can't link GCC and DMD object files on 
win32 because DMD emits OMF, GCC emits COFF, these are 
incompatible.

You might want to read this:

http://www.gamedev.net/blog/1140/entry-2254003-binding-d-to-c/

> But I get:
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
> test.obj Offset 00000H Record Type 004C
>  Error 138: Module or Dictionary corrupt
> --- errorlevel 1

I think we should try to implement a check in Optlink so it 
errors with a nicer "cannot link objects files in COFF format" 
rather than what it does right now.