[lld] Support for PECOFF in gnu ld mode

[Rui Ueyama]

Does this have to be supported as a native feature of the linker? Can we
write a shim that accepts GNU command line and translates them to link.exe
command line and use that instead?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Meador Inge <meadori at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Martell Malone <martellmalone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes I am certain this will be wanted.
> > Any mingw-w64 user / developer would never touch link.exe and expect an
> ld
> > compatable linker.
> > There are many cross platform projects that do this, to give an example
> the
> > vlc media player does.
> > Currently these projects use gcc and binutils and I would like to push
> them
> > in the direction of clang and lld :)
>
> I second this use case.  We have projects were Windows executables are
> cross built from Linux with MinGW and being able to do similar thing
> with LLD would be useful.
>
> -- Meador
>
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