On Fri, 18 Jul 2025, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:06:40 -0700 (PDT) > Jeremy Drake wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2025, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:24:04 -0700 (PDT) > > > Jeremy Drake <cyg...@jdrake.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:16:09 -0700 (PDT) > > > > > Jeremy Drake <cyg...@jdrake.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2025, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > BTW, I just realized we haven’t submitted the ITP for lld yet. > > > > > > > Jeremy, would you like to do it? Or shall I do that? > > > > > > > I'm asking because I did not contribute anything for lld. > > > > > > > > > > > > I sent something. I was holding off because it can't be built yet > > > > > > until > > > > > > llvm is updated. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! I've updated the maintainer as folows. > > > > > +clang Jeremy Drake/Takashi > > > > > Yano > > > > > +compiler-rt Takashi Yano > > > > > +libcxx Takashi Yano > > > > > +libcxxabi Takashi Yano > > > > > +libunwind Takashi Yano > > > > > +lld Jeremy Drake > > > > > +llvm Jeremy Drake/Takashi > > > > > Yano > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I pushed the playground lld branch as master to lld. > > > > > > I tried lld in the master branch. clang can work with > > > lld without -L/usr/lib/w32api. However, g++ cannot. > > > > > > $ clang++ -fuse-ld=lld hello.cc > > > $ g++ -fuse-ld=lld hello.cc > > > lld: error: unable to find library -ladvapi32 > > > lld: error: unable to find library -lshell32 > > > lld: error: unable to find library -luser32 > > > lld: error: unable to find library -lkernel32 > > > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > > $ > > > > > > Is this intentional behaviour? > > > > > > > I think it is, > > https://maskray.me/blog/2020-12-19-lld-and-gnu-linker-incompatibilities > > > > * Default library paths. > > * GNU ld has default library paths. > > * ld.lld doesn't. This is intentional so https://reviews.llvm.org/D70048 > > (NetBSD) cannot be accepted. > > My understandig is that the patch > 0207-LLD-add-library-path-w32api.patch > adds search path /usr/lib/w32api to embedded paths. > > So, without -L/usr/lib/w32api lld, can link them regardless > of compiler (clang++ and g++) invoking lld. Right?
That patch ended up dropped from the PATCH_URI in the lld.cygport. I don't think it's safe both from the standpoint that it wouldn't respect sysroot and that it's impossible to tell the difference between a mingw and cygwin target from within LLD (the process triple is the host).
