Optlink Contribution
w0rp via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 30 08:16:54 PDT 2014
On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 13:03:30 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "w0rp" wrote in message
> news:sinwmhzuvhmevqtunxms at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> I think it's important to ship with a linker without requiring
>> any further installation. One of the things that helped me to
>> learn D was being able to download DMD and run RDMD on Windows
>> without installing anything else. It's not obvious to very new
>> users who don't come from a Windows C++ background where you
>> can get a gratis Microsoft compiler or how to configure it. If
>> we were going to switch to COFF32, it would be a big bonus to
>> ship a COFF32 linker in the installer.
>
> FWIW this was the plan when I started ylink. I wanted to make
> a linker that could link omf and coff together, so I could
> tackle the object-format and runtime-format transitions
> independently. It does support mscoff32 hello world now, but
> not much more. Until it has debug info support it's not a
> viable replacement for optlink unfortunately.
I didn't know about ylink. The prospect of having a free software
linker for D on Win32 written in D does sound attractive. I
assume it would be a lot of work to make it acceptable for usage.
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