Re: GSOC Linker project

2012-05-08 Thread Roald Ribe
On Mon, 07 May 2012 12:41:09 -0300, Pierre LeMoine wrote: On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 12:36:18 UTC, Roald Ribe wrote: If you are interested in getting results rather than reinventing the wheel, I would advice you to have a look at the openwatcom.org wlink, and the forked jwlink as a starting

Re: GSOC Linker project

2012-05-07 Thread Roald Ribe
On Thu, 03 May 2012 19:47:19 -0300, Pierre LeMoine wrote: Hi! I'm interested in starting a project to make a linker besides optlink for dmd on windows. If possible it'd be cool to run it as a gsoc-project, but if that's not an option I'll try to get it admitted as a soc-project at my universi

Re: Discussion on D support in gdb

2011-11-23 Thread Roald Ribe
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:19:00 -0300, Martin Nowak wrote: - Are there other DWARF debuggers that we should take into account? Depends on what "taking into account" means in this context. The OpenWatcom debugger (wd/wdw) supports DWARF-2, and is released for WIN32, OS/2 and Linux (wd only). I

Re: Win32 binding replacement

2011-10-16 Thread Roald Ribe
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:34:37 -0300, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 10/16/11, simendsjo wrote: You also have to download the windows sdk and convert the .libs. The ones shipped with dmd is out of date. They're awfully out of date. I mean they're missing tens of "kilobytes" of symbols, it's almos

Re: [std.database]

2011-10-10 Thread Roald Ribe
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:31:35 -0300, Sean Kelly wrote: On Oct 9, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/9/11 5:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/9/2011 5:28 AM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: 1. I think that we should not design this API using the least common denominator approach. This

Re: Proposed improvements to the separate compilation model

2011-07-24 Thread Roald Ribe
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:14:27 -0300, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/23/2011 3:50 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/23/11 5:39 PM, bearophile wrote: I have suggested some fine-grained hashing. Compute a hash from a class definition, and later quickly compare this value with a value stored elsewh

D in Fedora 14

2010-11-02 Thread Roald Ribe
(maybe this is old news, but I have not seen it before) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_one_page_release_notes?anF14 Looks like D has hit the official repositories.

Re: D hates to be dynamic linked

2010-02-22 Thread Roald Ribe
Justin Johansson wrote: Rainer Schuetze wrote: 5. To share gc-collected objects between different DLLs, a common phobos-DLL seems necessary. Extracting the GC into a separate DLL and using the proxy-mechanism to attach any other client-DLL to it seems feasable, but are there other things that

Re: Modern Windows GUI visual styles

2009-09-09 Thread Roald Ribe
Stewart Gordon wrote: Indeed, I drove myself mad trying to find out how to make it work, and eventually discovered keeping a .manifest file alongside the .exe. We need more resources (NPI) teaching how to do it the tidier way. In your .rc file (which more or less all WIN32 GUI apps needs anyw