Request: make coff2omf free

[torhu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Or if it is then maybe Walter should provide a web-based coff2omf 
>> service.  $2 a pop, and if it doesn't work you don't pay.  Or something 
>> like that.  I might give that a try.  :-)
> 
> It's only $15. And I've been known to give refunds to people it didn't 
> work for, even though I think each of the utilities in the EUP are 
> easily worth $15 by themselves. OBJ2ASM in particular!

In the case of the D version of AllegroGL, I need a free tool that I can 
point people to.  Otherwise, it's not an option to use coff2omf.  A free 
library can't depend on people obtaining non-free tools.  Even if I 
could provide the needed binaries for linking with, it's a dead end, 
because anyone supposed to take over maintenance after me would need to 
buy coff2omf too.  Which isn't going to happen.


But I guess making AllegroGL compile to a dll is the better solution in 
the long run, since it doesn't depend on compiling to a specific version 
of the coff format.