DMD + msvc

[Iain Buclaw]

On 18 June 2012 16:08, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 June 2012 11:38, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday, 17 June 2012 at 10:49:30 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply.
>>> This is so ridiculous and frustrating.
>>
>>
>> Use GDC?
>
>
> I use GDC now. It produces COFF objects, and is technically capable of
> linking against MSVC code, except the 2 compilers expect different runtimes.
> You have to be REALLY careful with your GDC code to make sure it doesn't
> produce implicit calls into the GNU runtime, otherwise you'll get link
> conflicts.
> You can afford some really standard runtime calls that are also present in
> the mscrt, and it'll just link to those instead of the gnu ones.
>
> I have successfully build small scale projects with GDC linking against MSVC
> code, but there's a long list of problems and gotchas...
> My current approach is to build D code into DLL's and dynamically link
> against my MSVC code, or vice-versa.
>
> Hopefully the new 64bit dmd comes soon :)

DMD would be linking against it's own runtime on windows too, rather
than msvc runtime, iirc. So you may have similar problems there too.


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Iain Buclaw

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