[GSOC] more ideas

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-03-25 16:58, Trass3r wrote:
> > Not to mention, didn't someone find a linker that can link both COFF and
> > OMF
> > files on Windows and mostly works with dmd (IIRC, the debugging symbols
> > don't
> > currently work)? That sounds a lot more desirable than dealing with the
> > GNU
> > tools on Windows (which already have the whole COFF vs OMF problem).
> 
> Nobody knows how mature it really is, it isn't open source and you never
> know
> if the author will cease support/make it commercial whatever someday.
> 
> The object format has to be adapted for x64 anyway.
> And I doubt something like OMF64 even exists.

Yes. It would be _very_ nice if you could link D code with Microsoft's linker. 
The OMF vs COFF thing is really annoying.

- Jonathan M Davis