[LLVMdev] Is there a separate linker for LLVM in Windows?

[Ivan Krasin]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Michael Spencer <bigcheesegs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Thomson <lilotom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just found that some samples used link.exe from Visual Studio to generate
>> the final image, does LLVM has a replacement for link.exe to generate the
>> final binary?
I'm not related to the topic starter, but I see at least one huge
disadvantage of the dependency on link.exe.
W/o such a dependency it would be possible reliably generate Windows
executables on Linux or Mac, which has its own benefits (e.g.
distributed compilation)

krasin

>>
>> --
>> Thanks
>> Thomson
>
> Not currently, but a linker is being worked on.
>
> Is there any reason why link.exe is undesirable? You can also use ld from MinGW.
>
> - Michael Spencer
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