Request: make coff2omf free

[Bill Baxter]

torhu wrote:
> 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.

Probably so.  I notice that Allegro itself has a lot of language 
bindings.  Like PyAllegro for python LuAllegro for lua etc.  Python at 
least needs you to make a dll in the end in order to load any C code as 
a module, so someone may have done some work that you can leverage already.

--bb