From dd7246501ec4f3a1510c202e69521fc4fe7f1542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mateusz=20Miku=C5=82a?= <oss@mateuszmikula.dev>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:55:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] refactor mingw-w64 self-contained detection

---
 compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs | 31 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs
index 820f7ba4a6f23..97b1d5d5918c1 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ fn link_natively(
 ) {
     info!("preparing {:?} to {:?}", crate_type, out_filename);
     let (linker_path, flavor) = linker_and_flavor(sess);
-    let self_contained_components = self_contained_components(sess, crate_type, &linker_path);
+    let self_contained_components = self_contained_components(sess, crate_type);
 
     // On AIX, we ship all libraries as .a big_af archive
     // the expected format is lib<name>.a(libname.so) for the actual
@@ -1761,20 +1761,25 @@ fn link_output_kind(sess: &Session, crate_type: CrateType) -> LinkOutputKind {
     }
 }
 
-// Returns true if linker is located within sysroot
-fn detect_self_contained_mingw(sess: &Session, linker: &Path) -> bool {
-    // Assume `-C linker=rust-lld` as self-contained mode
-    if linker == Path::new("rust-lld") {
-        return true;
+/// Returns true if linker is shipped by Rust.
+// There are currently two different solutions for self-contained mode with mingw-w64:
+// using rust-lld directly (`-gnullvm` and `-gnu`) or using shipped cc to call the linker (`-gnu`).
+// Eventually, `-gnu` toolchains might be moved to calling the linker directly.
+fn detect_self_contained_mingw(sess: &Session) -> bool {
+    // Passing explicit linker other than `rust-lld` means non-self-contained mode.
+    if let Some(linker) = &sess.opts.cg.linker {
+        return linker == Path::new("rust-lld");
     }
-    let linker_with_extension = if cfg!(windows) && linker.extension().is_none() {
+
+    // If no explicit linker was given, proceed with implicit one (if present).
+    let linker_with_extension = if let Some(linker) = sess.target.linker.as_deref().map(Path::new) {
         linker.with_extension("exe")
     } else {
-        linker.to_path_buf()
+        return false;
     };
     for dir in env::split_paths(&env::var_os("PATH").unwrap_or_default()) {
         let full_path = dir.join(&linker_with_extension);
-        // If linker comes from sysroot assume self-contained mode
+        // If found linker doesn't come from sysroot assume non-self-contained mode.
         if full_path.is_file() && !full_path.starts_with(sess.opts.sysroot.path()) {
             return false;
         }
@@ -1785,11 +1790,7 @@ fn detect_self_contained_mingw(sess: &Session, linker: &Path) -> bool {
 /// Various toolchain components used during linking are used from rustc distribution
 /// instead of being found somewhere on the host system.
 /// We only provide such support for a very limited number of targets.
-fn self_contained_components(
-    sess: &Session,
-    crate_type: CrateType,
-    linker: &Path,
-) -> LinkSelfContainedComponents {
+fn self_contained_components(sess: &Session, crate_type: CrateType) -> LinkSelfContainedComponents {
     // Turn the backwards compatible bool values for `self_contained` into fully inferred
     // `LinkSelfContainedComponents`.
     let self_contained =
@@ -1818,7 +1819,7 @@ fn self_contained_components(
                 LinkSelfContainedDefault::InferredForMingw => {
                     sess.host == sess.target
                         && sess.target.abi != Abi::Uwp
-                        && detect_self_contained_mingw(sess, linker)
+                        && detect_self_contained_mingw(sess)
                 }
             }
         };