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From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20Storsj=C3=B6?= <martin@martin.st>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:19:52 +0300
Subject: configure: Allow detecting and using LLVM lld-link as linker for
 windows
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Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
---
 configure | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'configure')

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index a41c1e8..c56ead7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3262,6 +3262,18 @@ probe_cc(){
         # -Qvec- -Qsimd- to prevent miscompilation, -GS for consistency
         # with MSVC which enables it by default.
         _cflags='-Qms0 -Qvec- -Qsimd- -GS'
+    elif $_cc -? 2>/dev/null | grep -q 'LLVM.*Linker'; then
+        # lld can emulate multiple different linkers; in ms link.exe mode,
+        # the -? parameter gives the help output which contains an identifyable
+        # string, while it gives an error in other modes.
+        _type=lld-link
+        # The link.exe mode doesn't have a switch for getting the version,
+        # but we can force it back to gnu mode and get the version from there.
+        _ident=$($_cc -flavor gnu --version)
+        _ld_o='-out:$@'
+        _flags_filter=msvc_flags
+        _ld_lib='lib%.a'
+        _ld_path='-libpath:'
     elif $_cc --version 2>/dev/null | grep -q ^cparser; then
         _type=cparser
         _ident=$($_cc --version | head -n1)
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