On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 23:56:23 UTC, Baz wrote:
Hello, I've been very interested about the announce saying that
DMD is able to produce COFF object files. Mostly because I'm
thinking using some objects programmed in D in a software
programmed in another lang, a bit like when statically linking
a dll to a program but with an obj, to keep a nice monolithic
executable.
First thing: I've tried a simple thing: compile an exported
function with the args myfile.d -c -ms32mscoff and dmd
complains that -ms32mscoff is not a recognized switch.
32-bit COFF is only in git master currently. It'll be in 2.067
when that comes out. 64-bit COFF has been in dmd for quite some
time now. You just have to have a copy of Visual Studio installed
(the free Express edition should be fine) and compile with -m64.
Second thing:
If I understand well, it means that previously, to link D a
object with a soft programmed in another lang was not possible
because the OMF objs don't include everything (e.g the objs
coming from other imported static libs) and that now it's
faisable ? right ?
They'd just have to both be OMF format if you wanted to
statically link. If you had a DLL you could create an import
library from the DLL and still link that just fine. Walter has a
tool on Digital Mars to do it. Now you should be able to
directly link to COFF libraries.
