Why Ruby?

Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Sat Dec 11 11:18:00 PST 2010


I've seen some tools that can convert OMF > COFF, but never the other
way around.

On 12/11/10, David Nadlinger <see at klickverbot.at> wrote:
> On 12/11/10 2:46 PM, Michael Stover wrote:
>> Having to use the dmc compiler on windows in order to leverage legacy
>> C++ code while being able to move on with new D code doesn't sound like
>> too much of a restriction.  Is there a similar tool that allows linking
>> D and C++ on linux and mac?
>
> You don't need any »similar tool« for statically linking C with D code
> on Linux or Mac – DMD produces standard ELF resp. Mach-O code there.
>
> The problem you mentioned exists just on Windows, where DMD
> unfortunately generates object files/libraries in the fairly obscure
> OMF, whereas most other compilers use the PE/COFF format.
>
> I understand that Walter had reasons when he picked OMF for DMD
> (experience, compatibility with his own C++ compiler), but in practice
> this can be a huge pain – you can't ignore that MSVC is what everyone
> uses on Windows, plus MinGW for some open source projects, both of which
> use COFF for their object files.
>
> Since switching to DMC is not at all trivial in many cases (reasons
> include the build systems, not being able to use any precompiled
> packages, non-standard extensions, …), the issue is often worked around
> by building a DLL out of the C/C++ code, which is then loaded at runtime.
>
>
> David
>


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