1.. raw:: html 2 3 <style type="text/css"> 4 .none { background-color: #FFCCCC } 5 .partial { background-color: #FFFF99 } 6 .good { background-color: #CCFF99 } 7 </style> 8 9.. role:: none 10.. role:: partial 11.. role:: good 12 13=============== 14Windows support 15=============== 16 17LLD supports Windows operating system. When invoked as ``lld-link.exe`` or with 18``-flavor link``, the driver for Windows operating system is used to parse 19command line options, and it drives further linking processes. LLD accepts 20almost all command line options that the linker shipped with Microsoft Visual 21C++ (link.exe) supports. 22 23The current status is that LLD is used to link production builds of large 24real-world binaries such as Firefox and Chromium. 25 26Development status 27================== 28 29Driver 30 :good:`Mostly done`. Some exotic command line options that are not usually 31 used for application development, such as ``/DRIVER``, are not supported. 32 33Linking against DLL 34 :good:`Done`. LLD can read import libraries needed to link against DLL. Both 35 export-by-name and export-by-ordinal are supported. 36 37Linking against static library 38 :good:`Done`. The format of static library (.lib) on Windows is actually the 39 same as on Unix (.a). LLD can read it. 40 41Creating DLL 42 :good:`Done`. LLD creates a DLL if ``/DLL`` option is given. Exported 43 functions can be specified either via command line (``/EXPORT``) or via 44 module-definition file (.def). Both export-by-name and export-by-ordinal are 45 supported. 46 47Windows resource files support 48 :good:`Done`. If an ``.res`` file is given, LLD converts the file to a COFF 49 file using LLVM's Object library. 50 51Safe Structured Exception Handler (SEH) 52 :good:`Done` for both x86 and x64. 53 54Module-definition file 55 :partial:`Partially done`. LLD currently recognizes these directives: 56 ``EXPORTS``, ``HEAPSIZE``, ``STACKSIZE``, ``NAME``, and ``VERSION``. 57 58Debug info 59 :good:`Done`. LLD can emit PDBs that are at parity with those generated by 60 link.exe. However, LLD does not support /DEBUG:FASTLINK. 61 62 63Downloading LLD 64=============== 65 66The Windows version of LLD is included in the `pre-built binaries of LLVM's 67releases <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_ and in the `LLVM Snapshot 68Builds <https://llvm.org/builds/>`_. 69 70Building LLD 71============ 72 73Using Visual Studio IDE/MSBuild 74------------------------------- 75 761. Check out LLVM and LLD from the LLVM SVN repository (or Git mirror), 77#. run ``cmake -G "Visual Studio 12" <llvm-source-dir>`` from VS command prompt, 78#. open LLVM.sln with Visual Studio, and 79#. build ``lld`` target in ``lld executables`` folder 80 81Alternatively, you can use msbuild if you don't like to work in an IDE:: 82 83 msbuild LLVM.sln /m /target:"lld executables\lld" 84 85MSBuild.exe had been shipped as a component of the .NET framework, but since 862013 it's part of Visual Studio. You can find it at "C:\\Program Files 87(x86)\\msbuild". 88 89You can build LLD as a 64 bit application. To do that, open VS2013 x64 command 90prompt and run cmake for "Visual Studio 12 Win64" target. 91 92Using Ninja 93----------- 94 951. Check out LLVM and LLD from the LLVM SVN repository (or Git mirror), 96#. run ``cmake -G ninja <llvm-source-dir>`` from VS command prompt, 97#. run ``ninja lld`` 98