<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">James, many thanks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Is there any linker available for Macs that has a freely available binary version?<div class="">I thought maybe that GNU’s linker might fit the bill?</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">I cannot use Apple’s linker from /usr/bin/ as it is not allowed to make external calls from a sandboxed app.</div><div class="">Hence my interest in the LLVM lld.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 May 2020, at 19:21, James Y Knight <<a href="mailto:jyknight@google.com" class="">jyknight@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 1:54 PM Edmund Furse <<a href="mailto:edmund.furse@imitation.uk.com" class="">edmund.furse@imitation.uk.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Thanks for your reply. Two questions:<div class="">1). Will ld64.lld be fixed in LLVM v11.0 and when is this likely to be?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Likely won't be fixed that soon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">2). You mention Apple’s linker, by which I assume you mean GNU’s ld.</div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>Is it possible to get a binary version of ld (preferably that does not use other things from /usr/bin)?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div></div></div>
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