Linking C and D

[monarch_dodra]

On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 16:20:43 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 16:12:13 UTC, monarch_dodra 
> wrote:
>> I'm trying to get the hello world of cross compiling working:
>
> The short story is you can't link GCC and DMD object files on 
> win32 because DMD emits OMF, GCC emits COFF, these are 
> incompatible.
>
> You might want to read this:
>
> http://www.gamedev.net/blog/1140/entry-2254003-binding-d-to-c/
>
>> But I get:
>> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
>> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
>> test.obj Offset 00000H Record Type 004C
>> Error 138: Module or Dictionary corrupt
>> --- errorlevel 1
>
> I think we should try to implement a check in Optlink so it 
> errors with a nicer "cannot link objects files in COFF format" 
> rather than what it does right now.

Thanks.