DMD - Windows

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-01-08 01:27, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/7/2012 6:00 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Will dmd still produce OMF or will it be changed to produce COFF?
>
> It will be irrelevant, as the linker will read whatever it puts out, and
> the linker will read COFF.
>
> There is no reason why a linker cannot transparently read many object
> and library file formats. I even want the linker to be able to read a
> DLL and figure out how to interface it without needing to build a
> corresponding import library.
>
> There's quite a bit that can be done that was impractical for linkers of
> yore because of severe memory constraints.
>

I see, thanks for the explanation.

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/Jacob Carlborg