linker: Allow MSVC to use import libraries following the Meson/MinGW convention
Hi all,
This PR implements support for `MsvcLinker` to use import libraries following Meson and the MinGW toolchain's naming convention. Meson [follows the `libfoo.dll.a` naming convention](https://mesonbuild.com/FAQ.html#why-does-building-my-project-with-msvc-output-static-libraries-called-libfooa) to disambiguate between static and import libraries.
This support already existed for static libraries (see #100101), but not for dynamic libraries. The latter case was added by duplicating the logic in `native_libs::find_native_static_library`, but a separate case was added in `link_dylib_by_name` for the Windows CRT libraries which must be handled by the linker itself.
See for prerequisites #129366, #126094, and #128370.
All feedback is appreciated!
Fixes#122455
cc `@sdroege` `@nirbheek`
Simplify some nested `if` statements
Applies some but not all instances of `clippy::collapsible_if`. Some ended up looking worse afterwards, though, so I left those out. Also applies instances of `clippy::collapsible_else_if`
Review with whitespace disabled please.
Ignore `-C strip` on MSVC
tl;dr - Define `-Cstrip` to only ever affect the binary; no other build artifacts.
This is necessary to improve cross-platform behavior consistency: if someone wanted debug information to be contained only in separate files on all platforms, they would set `-Cstrip=symbols` and `-Csplit-debuginfo=packed`, but this would result in no PDB files on MSVC.
Resolves#114215
link.exe: Don't embed full path to PDB file in binary.
This PR makes `rustc` unconditionally pass `/PDBALTPATH:%_PDB%` to MSVC-style linkers, causing the linker to only embed the filename of the PDB in the binary instead of the full path. This will help implement the [trim-paths RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111540) for `*-msvc` targets.
Passing `/PDBALTPATH:%_PDB%` to the linker is already done by many projects that need reproducible builds and [debugger's should still be able to find the PDB](https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/build/reference/pdbpath) if it is in the same directory as the binary.
r? `@ghost`
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/87825
[AIX] Remove AixLinker's debuginfo() implementation
AIX ld's `-s` option doesn't perfectly fit` debuginfo()`'s semantics and may unexpectedly remove metadata in shared libraries. Remove the implementation of `AixLinker` and suggest user to use `strip` utility instead.
`-s` option doesn't perfectly fit into debuginfo()'s semantics and may unexpectedly
remove metadata in shared libraries. Remove the implementation and suggest user to
use `strip` utility instead.
Currently LLVM uses emutls by default
for some targets (such as android, openbsd),
but rust does not use it, because `has_thread_local` is false.
This commit has some changes to allow users to enable emutls:
1. add `-Zhas-thread-local` flag to specify
that std uses `#[thread_local]` instead of pthread key.
2. when using emutls, decorate symbol names
to find thread local symbol correctly.
3. change `-Zforce-emulated-tls` to `-Ztls-model=emulated`
to explicitly specify whether to generate emutls.
Perform LTO optimisations with wasm-ld + -Clinker-plugin-lto
Fixes (partially) #60059. Technically, `--target wasm32-unknown-unknown -Clinker-plugin-lto` would complete without errors before, but it was not producing optimized code. At least, it may have been but it was probably not the opt-level people intended.
Similarly to #118377, this could benefit from a warning about using an explicit libLTO path with LLD, which will ignore it and use its internal LLVM. Especially given we always use lld on wasm targets. I left the code open to that possibility rather than making it perfectly neat.
Enable Rust to use the EHCont security feature of Windows
In the future Windows will enable Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET aka Shadow Stacks). To protect the path where the context is updated during exception handling, the binary is required to enumerate valid unwind entrypoints in a dedicated section which is validated when the context is being set during exception handling.
The required support for EHCONT Guard has already been merged into LLVM, long ago. This change simply adds the Rust codegen option to enable it.
Relevant LLVM change: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40223
This also adds a new `ehcont-guard` option to the bootstrap config which enables EHCont Guard when building std.
We at Microsoft have been using this feature for a significant period of time; we are confident that the LLVM feature, when enabled, generates well-formed code.
We currently enable EHCONT using a codegen feature, but I'm certainly open to refactoring this to be a target feature instead, or to use any appropriate mechanism to enable it.
In the future Windows will enable Control-flow Enforcement Technology
(CET aka Shadow Stacks). To protect the path where the context is
updated during exception handling, the binary is required to enumerate
valid unwind entrypoints in a dedicated section which is validated when
the context is being set during exception handling.
The required support for EHCONT has already been merged into LLVM,
long ago. This change adds the Rust codegen option to enable it.
Reference:
* https://reviews.llvm.org/D40223
This also adds a new `ehcont-guard` option to the bootstrap config which
enables EHCont Guard when building std.
We support compressing debuginfo during codegen, but until this patch we
didn't pass the flag to the linker. Doing so means we'll respect the
requested compression even when building binaries or dylibs. This
produces much smaller binaries: in my testing a debug build of ripgrep
goes from 85M to 32M, and the target/ directory (after a clean build in
both cases) goes from 508M to 329M just by enabling zlib compression of
debuginfo.
In particular this is false when passing `-static` or `-static-pie` to
the linker, which changes the default to `-Bstatic`. This PR ensures we
explicitly initialize the correct mode when we first need it.
Currently a `{D,Subd}iagnosticMessage` can be created from any type that
impls `Into<String>`. That includes `&str`, `String`, and `Cow<'static,
str>`, which are reasonable. It also includes `&String`, which is pretty
weird, and results in many places making unnecessary allocations for
patterns like this:
```
self.fatal(&format!(...))
```
This creates a string with `format!`, takes a reference, passes the
reference to `fatal`, which does an `into()`, which clones the
reference, doing a second allocation. Two allocations for a single
string, bleh.
This commit changes the `From` impls so that you can only create a
`{D,Subd}iagnosticMessage` from `&str`, `String`, or `Cow<'static,
str>`. This requires changing all the places that currently create one
from a `&String`. Most of these are of the `&format!(...)` form
described above; each one removes an unnecessary static `&`, plus an
allocation when executed. There are also a few places where the existing
use of `&String` was more reasonable; these now just use `clone()` at
the call site.
As well as making the code nicer and more efficient, this is a step
towards possibly using `Cow<'static, str>` in
`{D,Subd}iagnosticMessage::{Str,Eager}`. That would require changing
the `From<&'a str>` impls to `From<&'static str>`, which is doable, but
I'm not yet sure if it's worthwhile.
