
Modules and build systems
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The Import and Import of Modules
Different objects produced by different compilers, as long as they use the same standard library in API compatible ways, can be linked together. If you have a BMI that was produced by Clang and you want to import it from GCC, it's just not going to work at all. It gets even worse because specific flags, even if you're using exactly the same compiler, will change the way that the abstract syntax tree is constructed. That's the second challenge that we have been working through. But again, we're almost there.
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