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<p class="MsoNormal">You can always download source tarballs of ld64 from <a href="https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/ld64/">
https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/ld64/</a> and build it yourself. (<a href="https://github.com/michaeleisel/zld">https://github.com/michaeleisel/zld</a> might also be interesting to you, depending on what all you plan to use the linker for.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
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<b>Reply-To: </b>Edmund Furse <edmund.furse@imitation.uk.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 12:16 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>James Y Knight <jyknight@google.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [llvm-dev] Ld64.lld cannot find Foundation framework<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">James, many thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Is there any linker available for Macs that has a freely available binary version?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I thought maybe that GNU’s linker might fit the bill?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I cannot use Apple’s linker from /usr/bin/ as it is not allowed to make external calls from a sandboxed app.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Hence my interest in the LLVM lld.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On 7 May 2020, at 19:21, James Y Knight <<a href="mailto:jyknight@google.com">jyknight@google.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:54 PM Edmund Furse <<a href="mailto:edmund.furse@imitation.uk.com">edmund.furse@imitation.uk.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Thanks for your reply. Two questions:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">1). Will ld64.lld be fixed in LLVM v11.0 and when is this likely to be?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Likely won't be fixed that soon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">2). You mention Apple’s linker, by which I assume you mean GNU’s ld.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Is it possible to get a binary version of ld (preferably that does not use other things from /usr/bin)?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">No, Apple does not use GNU ld, they have their own linker, "ld64". That's what you ran as /usr/bin/ld on your mac.<o:p></o:p></p>
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