DMD - Windows

[Manu]

On 8 January 2012 02:27, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 1/7/2012 6:00 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> Will dmd still produce OMF or will it be changed to produce COFF?
>>
>
> It will be irrelevant, as the linker will read whatever it puts out, and
> the linker will read COFF.
>
> There is no reason why a linker cannot transparently read many object and
> library file formats. I even want the linker to be able to read a DLL and
> figure out how to interface it without needing to build a corresponding
> import library.
>
> There's quite a bit that can be done that was impractical for linkers of
> yore because of severe memory constraints.
>

I'd quite like to use the VisualC linker... so I hope this isn't a
substitute for implementing COFF output to the compiler at some point.
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