On Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:12:01 Manu wrote: > Is it possible to just fix the compiler to output COFF objects *without* > touching optlink at all?
I have no idea. In principle, I would think so, but I don't know. But dmd would have to be altered so that you could choose the object format rather than being simply switched over to COFF regardless. Ideally, it would be modular enough to be able to make it output any format you like with plugins or somesuch, but I have no idea how it's designed. And therein is the largest problem regardless. Walter is probably the only person who knows the backend well enough to do anything like this. So, regardless of what the situation with optlink is, it's almost certainly going to require Walter, who's busy with plenty of other stuff which is also very important. If someone could make the changes themselves and create a pull request for it, then we could probably get COFF, but that would require someone knowledgeable enough to do that, and I don't think that anyone other than Walter really is. If someone other than Walter is going to do it, then they've got a lot to learn, and no one has taken the time to do that. - Jonathan M Davis
