If I link without druntime, can I use lld from linux ?

when I link with gold I get this error:

ld-new: fatal error: LLVM gold plugin has failed to create LTO module: Unknown attribute kind (62) (Producer: 'LLVM9.0.0' Reader: 'LLVM 8.0.1')
clang-8: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I try rebuild the ld-new, but seems not fix the problem.

I guess lld is a better link since it from llvm team,  how can i use it with ldc or clang for LTO and linux ?

On Friday, 4 October 2019 at 03:06:19 UTC, Newbie2019 wrote:
> If I link without druntime, can I use lld from linux ?

Should work, independent from whether you link with or without druntime. If you have clang and lld installed, specify `-gcc=clang -linker=lld` in the LDC cmdline; when linking with clang directly, use `-fuse-ld=lld`.

> ld-new: fatal error: LLVM gold plugin has failed to create LTO module: Unknown attribute kind (62) (Producer: 'LLVM9.0.0' Reader: 'LLVM 8.0.1')
> clang-8: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

The problem here is that the produced bitcode is v9, but the gold plugin is from LLVM v8.0.1. LDC v1.18.0-beta2 features the v9 gold plugin; it'll probably also work when updating your clang to v9.

On 4 Oct 2019, at 4:06, Newbie2019 via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> when I link with gold I get this error:
>
> ld-new: fatal error: LLVM gold plugin has failed to create LTO module: Unknown attribute kind (62) (Producer: 'LLVM9.0.0' Reader: 'LLVM 8.0.1')
> clang-8: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Seems like you are trying to use LTO with LDC built against LLVM 9.0, but the linker plugin (probably from clang) is built against LLVM 8.0? The plugin [1] is separate from the linker itself.

ld.gold should generally work fine. Perhaps others can chime in as to what the current situation with LLD on Linux is; I haven't tried it recently.

 — David


[1] https://llvm.org/docs/GoldPlugin.html

On Friday, 4 October 2019 at 09:54:44 UTC, kinke wrote:
> The problem here is that the produced bitcode is v9, but the gold plugin is from LLVM v8.0.1. LDC v1.18.0-beta2 features the v9 gold plugin; it'll probably also work when updating your clang to v9.

Thanks for the explain.  I add `-gcc=clang -linker=lld --plugin=/opt/build/llvm/build/lib/libLTO.so --flto-binary=/opt/build/llvm/build/lib/libLTO.so` to ldc,  but ldc2 not pass libLTO.so into clang,  and the ld.lld still run with  `-plugin /usr/bin/../lib/LLVMgold.so`.  how could I use the new builded libLTO.so instead LLVMgold.so ?


On Friday, 4 October 2019 at 14:50:26 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> Seems like you are trying to use LTO with LDC built against LLVM 9.0, but the linker plugin (probably from clang) is built against LLVM 8.0? The plugin [1] is separate from the linker itself.
>
> ld.gold should generally work fine. Perhaps others can chime in as to what the current situation with LLD on Linux is; I haven't tried it recently.

Thanks for the explain.

On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 08:44:32 UTC, Newbie2019 wrote:
> On Friday, 4 October 2019 at 09:54:44 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> The problem here is that the produced bitcode is v9, but the gold plugin is from LLVM v8.0.1. LDC v1.18.0-beta2 features the v9 gold plugin; it'll probably also work when updating your clang to v9.
>
> Thanks for the explain.  I add `-gcc=clang -linker=lld --plugin=/opt/build/llvm/build/lib/libLTO.so --flto-binary=/opt/build/llvm/build/lib/libLTO.so` to ldc,  but ldc2 not pass libLTO.so into clang,  and the ld.lld still run with  `-plugin /usr/bin/../lib/LLVMgold.so`.  how could I use the new builded libLTO.so instead LLVMgold.so ?

Since v1.17, LDC doesn't specify the plugin anymore when linking with LLD, as it shouldn't need it. So looks like your clang is adding a plugin path. You can explicitly add it with `-L-plugin=/opt/build/llvm/build/lib/libLTO.so` (`-plugin` is for LLVM/clang plugins) in the LDC cmdline (and make sure to specify `-flto=<thin|full>`). If you don't succeed, try with `-linker=gold`, where the plugin path is added by LDC automatically.

On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 18:53:22 UTC, kinke wrote:
> If you don't succeed, try with `-linker=gold`, where the plugin path is added by LDC automatically.

And, more importantly, the linker definitely uses that plugin with matching LLVM version; LLD might ignore it and so use its LLVM, which is apparently v8 in your case.

On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 18:56:31 UTC, kinke wrote:
> And, more importantly, the linker definitely uses that plugin with matching LLVM version; LLD might ignore it and so use its LLVM, which is apparently v8 in your case.

I rebuild ldc with lld & llvm9, it can generate the binary with clang8.

with  -linker=gold, or with  -L-plugin=.   make the link pass 2 or 3 plugin to link.

 /opt/local/bin/ld.lld -z now -z relro --hash-style=gnu --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_x86_64 -static -o tests_ng2.exe /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.2.0/../../../crt1.o /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.2.0/../../../crti.o /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.2.0/crtbeginT.o -Llib -L/opt/build/lib -L/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.2.0 -L/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.2.0/../../../../x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/lib -L/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.2.0/../../.. -L/usr/bin/../lib -L/lib -L/usr/lib -plugin /usr/bin/../lib/LLVMgold.so -plugin-opt=mcpu=x86-64 -z now -z noexecstack -z text /opt/d/tests_ng2.o -plugin /usr/lib/LLVMgold.so -plugin-opt=mcpu=x86-64 -plugin-opt=O0 -plugin-opt=-function-sections -plugin-opt=-data-sections -plugin=/opt/build/llvm/build/lib/libLTO.so -lng2 -lncursesw -lrt -lpthread -lm -ldl -lpthread --start-group -lgcc -lgcc_eh --end-group /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.2.0/crtend.o /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-alpine-linux-musl/9.2.0/../../../crtn.o --gc-sections -plugin-opt=O3 -lssl -lcrypto -lc -lgcc

the generate binary md5 hash seems is same when pass multi plugin.