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x/build: add a Windows builder with clang #38755

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jayconrod opened this issue Apr 29, 2020 · 10 comments
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x/build: add a Windows builder with clang #38755

jayconrod opened this issue Apr 29, 2020 · 10 comments
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Builders x/build issues (builders, bots, dashboards) NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. new-builder OS-Windows
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In theory, we should be able to use either GCC or Clang on all platforms where cgo is supported. Currently, none of the Windows builders use Clang. It would be good to verify cgo works in that configuration.
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Change https://golang.org/cl/291630 mentions this issue: cmd/link: set SizeOfRawData filed in COFF files for .bss section

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Change https://golang.org/cl/291630 mentions this issue: cmd/link: set SizeOfRawData field in COFF files for .bss section

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Change https://golang.org/cl/291632 mentions this issue: cmd/link: do not pass -Bsymbolic for PE DLLs

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Change https://golang.org/cl/291633 mentions this issue: cmd/link: set .ctors COFF section to writable and aligned to 8 bytes

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Change https://golang.org/cl/291633 mentions this issue: cmd/link: set .ctors COFF section to writable and aligned

gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Feb 23, 2021
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cmd/link: set SizeOfRawData rather than VirtualSize in COFF files for…
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… .bss section

GCC and Clang both set the SizeOfRawData field rather than the
VirtualSize field for communicating the size of the .bss section. As a
consequence, LLD does not look at VirtualSize and collapses the .bss
section into whatever is around it, resulting in runtime crashes. This
commit changes the logic so that if the requested "file size" is 0, then
the SizeOfRawData field is set rather than the VirtualSize field as the
sole length marker.

Fixes #44250.
Fixes #39326.
Updates #38755.
Updates #36439.
Updates #43800.

Change-Id: Ied89ddaa0a717fed840238244c6e4848845aeeb6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/291630
Trust: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Run-TryBot: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
TryBot-Result: Go Bot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>
gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Feb 23, 2021
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cmd/link: do not pass -Bsymbolic for PE DLLs
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This is only a valid option on ELF. Binutils accepts it, but LLVM
rejects it, so for Windows, it's best to just omit it.

Updates #44250.
Updates #39326.
Updates #38755.
Updates #36439.
Updates #43800.

Change-Id: Iffd2345d757f23dd737e63bd464cd412527077c4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/291632
Trust: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Run-TryBot: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
TryBot-Result: Go Bot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>
gopherbot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Feb 23, 2021
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cmd/link: set .ctors COFF section to writable and aligned
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Without setting these flags, LLVM's LLD ignores the .ctors section when
merging objects.

Updates #44250.
Updates #39326.
Updates #38755.
Updates #36439.
Updates #43800.

Change-Id: I8766104508f7acd832088a590ee7d68afa0d6065
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/291633
Trust: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Run-TryBot: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
TryBot-Result: Go Bot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>
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zx2c4 commented Feb 23, 2021

@jayconrod git master now has patches to make this work.

Here's a toolchain you can use: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw/releases/download/20201020/llvm-mingw-20201020-msvcrt-x86_64.zip

I've had good luck with this, and at some point we might consider encouraging the llvm toolchains, since only those support arm.

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Minor issue: when rebuilding my application using the llvm-lld linker, I have to delete my applications executable first or I get this message: go build json: build output "json.exe" already exists and is not an object file

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zx2c4 commented Feb 23, 2021

Can you let me know if f1562c7 fixes the issue for you?

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Give me half an hour. I also noticed that when I start a binary created with llvm-lld, it doesn't create a command line prompt. It is as if I had used the the -H WINDOWSGUI flag, even though I didn't.

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Yeah, seems to work. Thanks.

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