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 :-)