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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - lld-link shouldn't rely on lib.exe for creating empty import libraries"
   href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27389">27389</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>lld-link shouldn't rely on lib.exe for creating empty import libraries
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>lld
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>All Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>nicolasweber@gmx.de
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>I'm trying to build chromium's base library on a non-Windows host, using
clang-cl, lld-link, and a few local patches.

Everything works fine until the final link, which fails with:

python gyp-win-tool link-wrapper environment.x86 False
/Users/thakis/src/llvm-build/bin/lld-link /nologo /IMPLIB:./base.dll.lib /DLL
/OUT:./base.dll /PDB:./base.dll.pdb @./base.dll.rsp
unable to find lib.exe in PATH: : No such file or directory


(also note the duplicate :s)

Since lld includes a /lib mode, it seems that it's in scope that lld shouldn't
have to rely on lib.exe to create empty import libraries. lld-link /lib
currently doesn't know a /def: flag, but it should probably learn about it. But
once LibDriver knows that flag, maybe lld doesn't even have to spawn a
subprocess for creating the empty import lib but could just do a function call
to LibDriver.

(rc.exe and ctres.exe seem less in scoped for a linker :-) )</pre>
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