Re: [ITP] lld

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:37:48 -0700 (PDT)
Jeremy Drake wrote:
> LLD is a linker from the LLVM project that is a drop-in replacement for
> system linkers and runs much faster than them. It also provides features
> that are useful for toolchain developers.
> 
> Current packaging is in the playground repository, on the lld branch.
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/tree/?h=lld&id=d7936632fa8e96bc43a15d4c6598595767e33bb3
> 
> This depends on the updated llvm package, so can't really be built without
> that whole stack.  It does still need work to be usable for a Cygwin
> target, but works well for cross-compilation to mingw at least, and
> probably other targets as well.
> 
> Current test results:
> 
> Total Discovered Tests: 1066
>   Unsupported:   10 (0.94%)
>   Passed     : 1056 (99.06%)

Since Jeremy is now much less active, I would like to serve as a co‑maintainer
of the lld package.

-- 
Takashi Yano <[email protected]>