Request: make coff2omf free

[Frits van Bommel]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Frits van Bommel" <fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> wrote in message 
> news:erpp6f$2cka$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> torhu wrote:
>>> I'm working on translating headers for a C lib called allegroGL to D. The 
>>> C lib isn't set up for building DLLs on windows, only libs for static 
>>> linking.  So I'm stuck with mingw or msvc lib files that I can't link 
>>> with my D objects.
[snip]
>> Can't you just compile it with DMC? It shares the backend with DMD, so it 
>> should produce link-compatible output.
> 
> Not all libraries come with source.  Yeah, you'll probably say "then you 
> shouldn't use them" but that's just impractical. 

Actually, I wouldn't say that.

I however do happen to know Allegro _is_ open source, and assumed 
AllegroGL was as well. And as far as I cam tell I was right about that: 
http://allegrogl.sourceforge.net/
Anonymous SVN access is provided and it seem the sourceforge download 
page offers _only_ source downloads. So I'm not even sure where to get a 
binary static library without building it yourself, though there are 
usually unofficial binary packagers for such source-only libs.

Now I've just looked at the quickstart docs, and it doesn't seem to 
provide instructions for DMC. So if it doesn't compile on DMC that's a 
different story. All I asked was if torhu had looked into the possibility.