Akakima wrote:
Changing the object module format is not sufficient. The symbolic debug info would have to be changed (and Microsoft's is undocumented) and then there's the dependency on Microsoft's C runtime library if linking with VC generated object files.

I found some doc there:

  http://pierrelib.pagesperso-orange.fr/exec_formats/index.html

Microsoft Symbol and Type Information
By TIS / Microsoft. Entry added 12/28/2004.
Keywords: ms, symbol, type, info
File: MS_Symbol_Type_v1.0.pdf
« This document describes Microsoft Symbol and Type Information, a debugging information format fromMicrosoft Corporation for the 32-bit Windows environment. »


That document describes the Codeview symbol debug format, which Microsoft abandoned 15 years ago in favor of a proprietary format.

Dmd generates that older format :-)

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