[dmd-internals] Refactoring of the Objective-C integration

[Daniel Murphy via dmd-internals]

This change alone is obviously not sufficient, and OSX is probably the
target I'm least interested in....

But choosing targets at runtime does make cross-compiling much easier,
and should be something we're working towards?  Or do you disagree?

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Walter Bright via dmd-internals
<dmd-internals at puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On 3/5/2017 3:57 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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>> How do you see cross-compiling working when it’s a compile time decision
>> (compiling the compiler)? As far as I understand, it only works for LDC
>> because they’re not using the same makefiles as DMD does.
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> I don't see a need to compile OSX executables from Windows, Linux or
> FreeBSD. I don't recall it ever coming up.
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> DMD is not currently set up to cross compile that way, because the object
> file and library file code is a compile time switch. Making O-C a run time
> switch would still not make it a cross compiler.
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> The stub file is still pointless extra complexity, though, and using a
> compile time version will enable it to be merged with the non-stub file.
> It'd be a nice improvement.
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