Re: [ITP] lld

On 2026-07-01 20:01, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 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.

++ No brainer! Thanks

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