DMD + msvc

[Sean Kelly]

On Jun 17, 2012, at 3:49 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>> On 2012-06-17 07:15, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to use the VC2010 linker with DMD? That would allow
>>> easily linking with COFF libraries and building 64 bit binaries.
>> 
>> 
>> No.
>> 
>> 1. DMD can only output OMF binaries
>> 2. DMD cannot output 64bit code for Windows
>> 3. DMD is not compatible with the MSVC linker or runtime
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> This is so ridiculous and frustrating. 

What about GDC?  Makes me wonder how hard it would be to add a cfront option to DMD. I guess asm blocks make that a bit tricky though.