Unilink - alternative linker for win32/64, DMD OMF extensions?

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Walter Bright wrote:

> Akakima wrote:
>>> Changing the object module format is not sufficient. The symbolic debug
>>> info would have to be changed (and Microsoft's is undocumented) and then
>>> there's the dependency on Microsoft's C runtime library if linking with
>>> VC generated object files.
>> 
>> I found some doc there:
>> 
>>   http://pierrelib.pagesperso-orange.fr/exec_formats/index.html
>> 
>> Microsoft Symbol and Type Information
>> By TIS / Microsoft. Entry added 12/28/2004.
>> Keywords: ms, symbol, type, info
>> File: MS_Symbol_Type_v1.0.pdf
>> « This document describes Microsoft Symbol and Type Information, a
>> debugging information format fromMicrosoft Corporation for the 32-bit
>> Windows environment. »
> 
> 
> That document describes the Codeview symbol debug format, which Microsoft
> abandoned 15 years ago in favor of a proprietary format.
> 
> Dmd generates that older format :-)

Are you going to do Elf? With optlink in D? (Does that even make sense?)