Poll of the week: main OS and compiler

[Daniel Murphy]

"Manu" <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.223.1331197934.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
On 8 March 2012 00:21, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to just fix the compiler to output COFF objects *without* 
> touching optlink at all?
> I'm not interested in using optlink with this feature, I intend to link 
> with Visual Studio, that's the whole point. So ignoring optlink, that's a 
> major slice of work taken out of the equation...
> Maybe it would be nice to support optlink in future, but it seems the 
> priority is backwards.

Yes, it is, but then you still won't be able to link omf and coff object 
files/libraries together, meaning you need a coff version of 
druntime/phobos/any other d libraries, and you can't use the c runtime made 
by dmc etc.

Ideally everything would work together, and with a tool that can be bundled 
with D.