D is coming to a town near you

[Dmitry Olshansky]

21-Feb-2013 12:48, Rikki Cattermole пишет:
> On Thursday, 21 February 2013 at 00:57:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 01:55:00AM +0100, Rob T wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 21 February 2013 at 00:48:50 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> >>
>>> >>Yes. Shared Libraries Please.
>>> >>
>>> >>Thank you.
>>> >
>>> >+1
>>> >
>>> >It's the most important issue for me. Particular feature bugs >can
>>> >be worked around, lack of shared library support is >insurmountable
>>> >for many applications.
>>>
>>> Yes, it's a major barrier towards adoption in a production
>>> environment. Walter said it's now a priority, so I cross the fingers
>>> and hope.
>> [...]
>>
>> Better yet, maybe more of us should start delving into DMD's code...
>> Currently only a small number of people really understand the compiler,
>> which has a rather low bus factor. We need to increase that (not only to
>> improve the bus factor, but also so that more people are aware of
>> compiler issues and hopefully how to fix them).
>>
>>
>> T
> I just want to say, as I have only worked in D for ~6 months the usage
> of Optilink is a real pain.

Checkout this alternative linker:
ftp://ftp.styx.cabel.net/pub/UniLink/

The only issue is that it converts debug info to some other format 
compatible with Borland's tools (TDS?).

> Couple of days ago I took a strong look at removing 64bit only code from
> Coff support and allowing it to compile 32bit.
> I failed yes.
> But I definitely will take another look into this.
> Hopefully learn wayy more of how it works!


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Dmitry Olshansky