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| author | Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de> | 2022-03-08 18:41:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Xavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com> | 2022-04-30 10:06:22 -0400 |
| commit | c16fdaeecafe94461d6048b90bd337a04c25ad3c (patch) | |
| tree | 7ebffc621f5ad4d75459dff1d5b5f05cc6481993 /docs | |
| parent | 93ed7531c4a1e08defc5ea3b37427e59f67582db (diff) | |
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linkers: Add support for mold linker
[why]
Support for the relatively new mold linker is missing. If someone wants
to use mold as linker `LDFLAGS="-B/path/to/mold"` has to be added instead
of the usual `CC_LD=mold meson ...` or `CXX_LD=mold meson ...`.
[how]
Allow `mold' as linker for clang and newer GCC versions (that versions
that have support).
The error message can be a bit off, because it is generic for all GNU
like compilers, but I guess that is ok. (i.e. 'mold' is not listed as
possible linker, even if it would be possible for the given compiler.)
[note]
GCC Version 12.0.1 is not sufficient to say `mold` is supported. The
expected release with support will be 12.1.0.
On the other hand people that use the un-released 12.0.1 will probably
have built it from trunk. Allowing 12.0.1 is helping bleeding edge
developers to use mold in Meson already now.
Fixes: #9072
Signed-off-by: Fini Jastrow <ulf.fini.jastrow@desy.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/mold-support.md | 4 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md index acd1297..2a6868c 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ These are return values of the `get_linker_id` method in a compiler object. | ld.bfd | The GNU linker | | ld.gold | The GNU gold linker | | ld.lld | The LLVM linker, with the GNU interface | +| ld.mold | The fast MOLD linker | | ld.solaris | Solaris and illumos | | ld.wasm | emscripten's wasm-ld linker | | ld64 | Apple ld64 | diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/mold-support.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/mold-support.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..450ffad --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/mold-support.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +## Support for mold linker added + +The high performance linker mold can be selected via `CC_LD` or `CXX_LD` for +Clang and GCC >= 12.0.1. |