DMD - Windows

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Manu" <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.126.1325877634.16222.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>
> Lame. Surely Optlink is not the only linker in the world...?
> I'm also surprised that someone capable of writing a compiler and 
> optimiser
> for a complex language isn't capable of writing a linker. The link must
> surely be the simplest+easiest of those 3 jobs...?

He (ie, Walter) *did* write Optlink, that's why DMD/Win uses it :/

(And OMF wasn't such a problem back when Optlink was written. AIUI, not 
being an expert in the matter myself, the decline of Borland seems to be one 
of the main reasons for OMF's demise.)

>Why not use this instead of Optlink if it works?
>I'll check it out... though VisualD doesn't support this.
...
> VisualD doesn't support those compilers (yet).
>

Yea, GDC and LDC were lagging pretty far behind until only fairly recently, 
and we didn't discover unilink until not real long ago either, so D many 
projects have been slow in supporting them. But yea, as a community we 
probably do need to make sure to start supporting them better.

>> If you feel this is all still a big pain in the ass: Don't worry, 
>> everyone
>> here agrees with you, and the situation will not remain like this 
>> forever.
>
> Indeed. The main reason for my post is just to complain, and add my voice 
> ;)
> I'd like to insist that this is basically unacceptable... it should be
> prioritised.
>

vote++