[LLVMdev] Using thin archives when building llvm

[Brad King]

On 07/17/2015 02:44 PM, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
> Setting CMAKE_CXX_CREATE_STATIC_LIBRARY works on OS X and linux, but
> on windows I still see a call to "lld-link2 /lib..." when
> CMAKE_CXX_CREATE_STATIC_LIBRARY is set to use llvm-lib.

What CMake generator are you using on Windows?  These command-line
rule variables are implementation details of the Makefile and Ninja
generators only.  For the VS IDE project files msbuild constructs
the actual command lines.

-Brad