DMD - Windows

[q66]

On Sunday, 8 January 2012 at 00:27:46 UTC, 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.

It certainly won't be irrelevant, as people will want to produce 
libraries with dmd too, and other toolchains have to be able to 
read them.