DMD + msvc

[Walter Bright]

On 6/19/2012 7:16 AM, Rene Zwanenburg wrote:
> On Monday, 18 June 2012 at 17:51:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/17/2012 3:34 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> I intend to fix all of those, at least for 64 bit Windows, in the near term.
>
> COFF and 64 bit support for windows are on the top of my wish list for D, so
> this is great news! A few questions:
>
> What do you mean by 'at least for 64 bit windows'? No COFF support when
> targeting, or building on, 32 bit?

Right. Frankly, I think the future is all 64 bits. That future is already here 
on the Mac, where supporting 32 bits seems more and more of a backwater.


> 'in the near term': I know it's a hard question, but does that mean a few
> months, or more like a year?

On the order of months.

> Perhaps we could look into writing a COFF linker in D to replace optlink, that
> way OMF support can be dropped completely. It'd be cool to have part of the
> toolchain written in D itself.

I'd love to do that, but I can't spare the month or so to do it.