[llvm] [CMake] Set LLVM_USE_LINKER for external projects when using lld (PR #170401)
Zachary Fogg via llvm-commits
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Tue Dec 2 23:27:52 PST 2025
zfogg wrote:
@petrhosek I see. Well is it not a problem that this caused me a build error with no warning message? If I configure via cmake in a certain way without setting LLVM_USE_LINKER=lld, it won't build and there's no warning -- you have to wait until you're like an hour into the build before you get the error message! In my opinion that's a problem. The user should be told this.
Here's what I ran:
```bash
cmake -G Ninja -B build -S llvm \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="libc;clang;clang-tools-extra;lld;lldb;mlir;polly;openmp" \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES="all" \
-DLLVM_INCLUDE_DOCS=OFF \
-DLLVM_INCLUDE_TESTS=OFF \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON \
-DLLVM_CCACHE_BUILD=ON \
-DLLVM_BINUTILS_INCDIR=/usr/include \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_EH=OFF \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_LIBCXX=ON \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_LLVM_LIBC=ON \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_LTO=Full \
-DLLVM_OPTIMIZED_TABLEGEN=ON \
-DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON \
-DLLVM_POLLY_LINK_INTO_TOOLS=ON \
-DLLVM_BUILD_EXTERNAL_COMPILER_RT=ON \
-DLLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB=ON \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_FFI=ON \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON \
-DLLVM_INSTALL_UTILS=ON \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_Z3_SOLVER=ON \
-DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="X86;AArch64" \
-DLLVM_PARALLEL_LINK_JOBS=4 \
-DLLVM_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS_IN_FILES=ON \
-DLLVM_SOURCE_PREFIX=. \
-DLLDB_USE_SYSTEM_DEBUGSERVER=ON \
-DLLDB_ENABLE_PYTHON=ON \
-DLLDB_ENABLE_LUA=OFF \
-DLLDB_ENABLE_LZMA=ON \
-DLIBOMP_INSTALL_ALIASES=OFF \
-DLIBCXX_INSTALL_MODULES=ON \
-DLLVM_CREATE_XCODE_TOOLCHAIN=OFF \
-DCLANG_FORCE_MATCHING_LIBCLANG_SOVERSION=OFF \
-DCLANG_CONFIG_FILE_USER_DIR=~/.config/clang
cmake --build build
```
These are all documented options that should work without failure but I had the build error I mentioned.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/170401
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