GtkD: Build script

[Johnson Jones via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 20 August 2017 at 20:13:17 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
> On 20-08-17 20:41, Johnson Jones wrote:
>> I guess I see why now you did what you did! ;)
>> 
>> .LIB pagesize exceeds 512
>> 
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15418
>> 
>> Wanna take bets on how many *years* this takes to get fixed?!?
>
> That one happens when GtkD is build with debug symbols.
>
> The main library is build by package because optlink or omf 
> doesn't support more that 32767 symbols in one object file, and 
> i hit that limit.

;/

After all, who will ever need more than 32767 symbols?

Is this a problem with the linker or the object format? Maybe 
both oplink and dmd could be upgraded to use an extended omf 
format that allows more symbols?