Request: make coff2omf free

[Walter Bright]

Julio César Carrascal Urquijo wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> One thing that Microsoft does is keep changing their omf format. It's 
>> a full time job just keeping up with that, that's why I gave it up. If 
>> I ever do update the entire omf toolchain, it'll be to ELF/Dwarf 
>> format, not because I like them (they are overly complicated) but 
>> because being ubiquitous on Linux it reduces my workload.
> 
> Here's a random idea. Why not update the toolchain to support the COFF 
> format that MinGW uses? Not Microsoft's, not Borland's. Lots of 
> libraries support directly MinGW and it would help us a bit interfacing 
> D code with C or even C++.
> 
> Of course the incompatibilities between the different libc and loaders 
> will still be problems but those are workable if source is available.
> 
> What do you think, Walter? It's still too much work and not enough gain?

Since I have to support Elf anyway, it still leaves me supporting two 
formats.