On Wed, 23 Apr 2025, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:46:16 -0700 (PDT) > Jeremy Drake wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2025, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > > > cygwin packages lack lld, so clang uses ld (correct2?) to link, > > > which does not support other targets than x86 (i686, x86_64). > > > Therefore I disabled them. > > > > Correct. At least for cygwin target, it actually calls gcc to do the > > link, which in turns calls ld. > > > > > As you suggested, enabling other targets would be usefull if > > > lld can be built for cygwin. > > > > Oh, it can absolutely be *built* for cygwin. The only issue is that it > > cannot easily *target* cygwin, so it'd only really be useful for > > cross-compiling. > > Ah, you meant enabling other targets for mingw compiler, > and lld can be build for mingw compiler. Right?
llvm/clang/lld is not like binutils/gcc in that respect, there need only be one "compiler" built, and that can target anything (assuming the architectures aren't disabled). clang/lld could be used to target mingw, or linux, or anything else that clang/lld supports that you can give it a sysroot for.
