Optlink is on github

Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 00:54:42 PST 2013


08-Mar-2013 00:15, Andrej Mitrovic пишет:
> On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 20:01:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> What we *can* do with Optlink is fix the occasional bug that crops up
>> in it.
>
> I hope so. :)
>
> On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 20:01:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I also believe that even if Optlink were completely converted to C, it
>> will still be intractably difficult to refactor it to do things like
>> support other object file formats.
>
> I really wish Unilink[1] was open-source.

Same here. Maybe we should try and convince him to share it with some 
OpenSource license?

> It's apparently a student
> project, and it's closed source but freeware. It works with OMF but can
> also link OMF and COFF objects together, which is a boon for win32
> programmers who don't want to go through OBJCONV (object file
> conversion, doesn't always work) or COFF2OMF (import libs). It also has
> pretty good error messages.
>
> Of course there's no telling how big its test-suite is. It's fairly easy
> to set up though[2].
>
> [1] ftp://ftp.styx.cabel.net/pub/UniLink/
> [2]
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/jbvugp$8l3$1@digitalmars.com#post-mailman.1414.1323538292.24802.digitalmars-d:40puremagic.com
>
>
> On Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 20:01:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> This is why I had started a new linker project.
>
> Interesting. But if it's made behind-the-scenes with no input or work
> from the community I won't be holding my hopes up too much, I know you
> have very limited time for side-projects like that.


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Dmitry Olshansky


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