On 20/02/2018 9:49 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 21:50:02 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
On 19/02/2018 21:17, Andre Pany wrote:
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 10:49:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ to the 77
contributors for this release.
[...]
This release is fantastic!
In the change log information about lld linker is missing. Maybe you
can add
some info how to use it instead of link.exe (the OMF one).
Kind regards
André
LLD does not replace the OMF linker, but the MS linker for COFF.
The Windows installer also comes with platform libraries built from
the mingw definitions and a wrapper library for the VC distributable C
runtime libraries. This allows using dmd with -m64 and -m32mscoff
without having to install Visual Studio, the VC build tools or the
Windows SDK.
I'll add a PR for the changelog...
How does one keep on using Microsoft's linker? I've tried lld on Linux
and while some binaries ran fine, others crashed. I don't trust it all
right now.
Atila
By the looks, nothing.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/3030457738872ffe12e145dddb80b8b4cf766e4b/src/dmd/link.d#L1031
Also Windows and Linux support in lld may as well be equated to a
completely different set of projects.
"The linkers share the same design but share very little code. Sharing
code makes sense if the benefit is worth its cost. In our case, the
object formats are different enough that we thought the layer to
abstract the differences wouldn’t be worth its complexity and run-time
cost. Elimination of the abstract layer has greatly simplified the
implementation." - https://lld.llvm.org/NewLLD.html
