OPTLINK needs to die.

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>
>> So.. all you'd have to do is separate the "OS" logical decisions from
>> the "object type" decisions.
>>
>> Or?
>
> Let me put it this way - I thought doing the mac port, which is stuff like
> that, would take a week. It took 6 weeks.
>
> An elf output would be targeting a different C/C++ compiler ABI and runtime
> library. It's not terribly difficult, it's just time consuming and not
> trivial.
>

But at the same time, the benefits are undeniable.  s/ELF/any object
format other than OMF/, and it still holds.