On Sunday, 12 July 2020 at 16:36:09 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
The line
dflags "-linker=gold" platform="linux-ldc" # use GNU gold linker
in dub.sdl
enables me to change linker for LDC.
Is it possible to choose a specific linker for DMD aswell in a
similar way?
I only find the flag `-L` that sets flags but no linker
executable.
One way is to link
/usr/bin/ld
to either
/usr/bin/ld.gold
or
/usr/bin/ld.lld
but it would be nice to be able to do this from the dub.sdl or
the command-line call to dub.
dub links using the compiler, so it basically just runs `dmd
[flags] [files-to-link]`
In the DMD documentation you can see that it just runs gcc:
https://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html#linking
Personally I always `ln -s /usr/bin/ld.gold /usr/local/bin/ld` to
make ld.gold the default.
