<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/123786>123786</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            [BUILD] Not able to select mold in Windows
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            new issue
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          QBos07
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    I try to configure to LLM to build with mold as the linker. I use clang from LLVM 19 windows release.

My cmake invocation is `cmake -S . -B build -DLLVM_USE_LINKER=mold -DLLVM_PARALLEL_LINK_JOBS=1`

I also tryed `CMAKE_LINKER=mold` and setting `-fuse-ld=mold`

still:
```ninja
build bin/llvm-min-tblgen.exe: CXX_EXECUTABLE_LINKER__llvm-min-tblgen_Debug utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/ARMTargetDefEmitter.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/Attributes.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/CodeGenIntrinsics.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/DirectiveEmitter.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/IntrinsicEmitter.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/RISCVTargetDefEmitter.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/SDNodeProperties.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/TableGen.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/Basic/CMakeFiles/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic.dir/VTEmitter.cpp.obj utils/TableGen/CMakeFiles/llvm-min-tblgen.dir/llvm-min-tblgen.cpp.obj | lib/LLVMSupport.lib lib/LLVMTableGen.lib lib/LLVMDemangle.lib || lib/LLVMDemangle.lib lib/LLVMSupport.lib lib/LLVMTableGen.lib utils/TableGen/Basic/obj.LLVMTableGenBasic
  FLAGS = -Werror=date-time -Werror=unguarded-availability-new -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wmissing-field-initializers -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wc++98-compat-extra-semi -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wcovered-switch-default -Wno-noexcept-type -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wdelete-non-virtual-dtor -Wsuggest-override -Wstring-conversion -Wmisleading-indentation -Wctad-maybe-unsupported -O0 -D_DEBUG -D_DLL -D_MT -Xclang --dependent-lib=msvcrtd -g -Xclang -gcodeview
  LINK_FLAGS = -fuse-ld=mold  -Xlinker /subsystem:console  -fuse-ld=lld-link
 LINK_LIBRARIES = lib/LLVMSupport.lib  lib/LLVMTableGen.lib  -lpsapi.lib -lshell32.lib  -lole32.lib  -luuid.lib  -ladvapi32.lib  -lws2_32.lib -lntdll.lib  lib/LLVMDemangle.lib  -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -loldnames
 OBJECT_DIR = utils\TableGen\CMakeFiles\llvm-min-tblgen.dir
  POST_BUILD = cd .
  PRE_LINK = cd .
  TARGET_COMPILE_PDB = utils\TableGen\CMakeFiles\llvm-min-tblgen.dir\
  TARGET_FILE = bin\llvm-min-tblgen.exe
  TARGET_IMPLIB = lib\llvm-min-tblgen.lib
 TARGET_PDB = bin\llvm-min-tblgen.pdb
```

notice the `-Xlinker /subsystem:console  -fuse-ld=lld-link` at the end
</pre>
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