• Baz (15/15) Aug 20 2014 Hello, I've been very interested about the announce saying that
• Brad Anderson (10/25) Aug 20 2014 32-bit COFF is only in git master currently. It'll be in 2.067

"Baz" <basile.burg gmx.com> writes:

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.

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 ?

"Brad Anderson" <eco gnuk.net> writes:

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.