digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 17390] New: Pass flags to linker driver without -Xlinker
- via Digitalmars-d-bugs (35/35) May 10 2017 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17390
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17390 Issue ID: 17390 Summary: Pass flags to linker driver without -Xlinker Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: dmd Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: adrian matoga.info There's an open PR to LDC [1] to allow passing options to the linker driver without -Xlinker on non-Windows platforms. This is required e.g. for flags like --sysroot=path [2] or flags from pkg-config [3] to work as expected. The PR [1] adds option '-Xcc OPT', which passes OPT directly to the linker driver (e.g. gcc or clang) without prepending it with -Xlinker. The global order of flags passed via '-Xcc' and '-L' is preserved, and libraries requested via pragma(lib) are appended after those flags. The choice of '-Xcc' was motivated by clang's convention [4]. A similar feature would probably be useful also for DMD users. Since '-Xcc' doesn't look consistent with current use of '-X' in DMD, DMD probably should use a different switch for it. W.r.t. order of linker (or linker driver) flags, there're a few related DMD issues [5]. [1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/2104 [2] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2093 [3] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1700 [4] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2093#issuecomment-299707520 [5] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15574 [6] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15531 [7] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7044 --
May 10 2017