Optlink is on github

Jakob Ovrum jakobovrum at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 05:02:05 PST 2013


On Friday, 8 March 2013 at 05:29:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> I've actually modified dmd's frontend to support using the VS 
> tool chain for linking 32 bit executables. But I didn't 
> understand the backend to seperate the 32bit binary generation 
> vs 64bit. I believe it shouldn't be too much. But I really 
> don't understand it so if anyone is willing to help on this.
> I haven't broken 64bit generation as far as I know. Because I 
> added a cli argument (-msvc) which is enabled for -m64 
> automatically on Windows.

I'd love to have an option like that. Win32 is at the very least 
going to be a target for many years to come (for some also a 
development platform) and the OPTLINK/OMF business is a real 
impediment.


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