[cfe-dev] Can clang generate COFF files on Linux host?

[Jacob Carlborg via cfe-dev]

On 2020-12-20 15:09, Magomed Kostoev via cfe-dev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> There was a technical issue in mail web client, let's try again.
> 
> Just now I wrote a linker for KolibriOS. It's based on lld-link so it only
> works with COFF inputs. 

The regular LLD can handle ELF input and link ELF binaries.

> But my development environment is Linux. Is  there any
> way to ask clang to generate COFF objects?

Use the `-target` flag. Something like `-target x86_64-windows`.

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/Jacob Carlborg