Fix for raw-dylib when linking with MinGW BFD #88801

mati865 · 2021-09-09T23:37:58Z

Basically a proof of concept right now, needs more work/thoughts.

rust-highfive · 2021-09-09T23:38:01Z

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ricobbe · 2021-09-10T17:07:53Z

This approach is admirable in its simplicity, but unfortunately, I don't think it supports all of the cases specified in the RFC. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to specify stdcall, fastcall, or vectorcall functions in a .DEF file, and stdcall in particular is required in order to link against the Windows API on 32-bit Intel.

mati865 · 2021-09-10T19:30:46Z

Right, I tend to forget i686 targets still do exist.

I think there is no problem with most of calling conventions as long as we properly save them into .def.
Consider this snippet:

// $ cat calling_conventions.c
__cdecl __declspec(dllexport) int cdeclSum(int a, int b)
{
  return a + b;
}

__stdcall __declspec(dllexport) int stdcallSum(int a, int b)
{
  return a + b;
}

__fastcall __declspec(dllexport) int fastcallSum(int a, int b)
{
  return a + b;
}

Compile, link and check the symbols:

$ gcc -shared calling_conventions.c -o calling_conventions.dll

$ nm calling_conventions.dll | rg Sum
64ec14fc T @fastcallSum@8
64ec14e0 T _cdeclSum
64ec14ed T _stdcallSum@8

So far so good, now .def file:

$ gendef calling_conventions.dll
 * [calling_conventions.dll] Found PE image

$ cat calling_conventions.def
;
; Definition file of calling_conventions.dll
; Automatic generated by gendef
; written by Kai Tietz 2008
;
LIBRARY "calling_conventions.dll"
EXPORTS
@fastcallSum@8
cdeclSum
stdcallSum@8@8

Now the import library:

$ dlltool -d calling_conventions.def -l calling_conventions.dll.a

$ nm calling_conventions.dll.a | rg Sum
00000000 I __imp__stdcallSum@8@8
00000000 T _stdcallSum@8@8
00000000 I __imp__cdeclSum
00000000 T _cdeclSum
00000000 T @fastcallSum@8
00000000 I __imp_@fastcallSum@8

I'm not an Windows expert but seems fine for me.

Now the hard part for GNU toolchain, __vectorcall. Let's add this snippet to the previous file:

__vectorcall __declspec(dllexport) int vectorcallSum(int a, int b)
{
  return a + b;
}

Let's build, link and see the symbols:

$ gcc -shared calling_conventions.c -o calling_conventions.dll
calling_conventions.c:16:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
   16 | __vectorcall __declspec(dllexport) int vectorcallSum(int a, int b)
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
calling_conventions.c:16:1: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of '__vectorcall' [-Wimplicit-int]
calling_conventions.c:16:36: error: expected ',' or ';' before 'int'
   16 | __vectorcall __declspec(dllexport) int vectorcallSum(int a, int b)
      |                                    ^~~

# GCC didn't work, trying Clang
$ clang -shared calling_conventions.c -o calling_conventions.dll
D:/msys64/mingw32/bin/ld: cannot export vectorcallSum@@8: symbol not found
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

# Which failed because of BFD..., now LLD
$ clang -fuse-ld=lld -shared calling_conventions.c -o calling_conventions.dll

$ nm calling_conventions.dll | rg Sum
10001520 T @fastcallSum@8
100014e0 T _cdeclSum
10001500 T _stdcallSum@8
10001540 T vectorcallSum@@8

So Clang + LLD worked, let's see about GNU dlltool:

$ gendef calling_conventions.dll
 * [calling_conventions.dll] Found PE image

$ cat calling_conventions.def
;
; Definition file of calling_conventions.dll
; Automatic generated by gendef
; written by Kai Tietz 2008
;
LIBRARY "calling_conventions.dll"
EXPORTS
@fastcallSum@8
cdeclSum
stdcallSum@8@8
vectorcallSum@@8

$ dlltool -d calling_conventions.def -l calling_conventions.dll.a

$ nm calling_conventions.dll.a | rg Sum
00000000 I __imp__vectorcallSum@@8
00000000 T _vectorcallSum@@8
00000000 I __imp__stdcallSum@8@8
00000000 T _stdcallSum@8@8
00000000 I __imp__cdeclSum
00000000 T _cdeclSum
00000000 T @fastcallSum@8
00000000 I __imp_@fastcallSum@8

It worked I guess.
Does this sound right?

mati865 · 2021-09-11T00:40:39Z

So this has almost worked, the main raw-dylib test passes on i686, alt calling convections not so much:

--- output.txt  2021-08-01 14:42:35.185553200 +0200
+++ /d/Projekty/rust/build/i686-pc-windows-gnu/test/run-make/raw-dylib-alt-calling-convention/raw-dylib-alt-calling-convention/output.txt       2021-09-11 01:51:42.126128500 +0200
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 fastcall_fn_2(16, 3.5)
 fastcall_fn_3(3.5)
 fastcall_fn_4(1, 2, 3.0)
-fastcall_fn_5(S { x: 1, y: 2 }, 16)
+fastcall_fn_5(S { x: 1, y: 2 }, 1074266112)
 fastcall_fn_6(S { x: 10, y: 12 })
-fastcall_fn_7(S2 { x: 15, y: 16 }, 3)
+fastcall_fn_7(S2 { x: 15, y: 16 }, 10)
 fastcall_fn_8(S3 { x: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] }, S3 { x: [6, 7, 8, 9, 10] })
 fastcall_fn_9(1, 3.0)

So far I had no success getting debuggers on Windows to help me with that but I wouldn't be surprised if it's alignment issue.

mati865 · 2021-09-11T17:03:21Z

A bit cleaned up the implementation and added 2 MinGW builders to the CI. That way I can test Linux -> Windows and {i686,x86_64} Windows -> {i686,x86_64} Windows cross builds.

Can I have @bors try?

nagisa · 2021-09-12T19:49:15Z

@bors try

bors · 2021-09-12T19:49:23Z

⌛ Trying commit 83c2fea with merge 5e9549d92c173bb99ee4c50a87b6199ac57d62a6...

bors · 2021-09-12T21:15:09Z

☀️ Try build successful - checks-actions
Build commit: 5e9549d92c173bb99ee4c50a87b6199ac57d62a6 (5e9549d92c173bb99ee4c50a87b6199ac57d62a6)

mati865 · 2021-09-13T22:55:29Z

It works in all cases except self-contained mode because it's not added to the PATH (even with -C link-self-contained=true).
Bits that handle it for linking are located in compiler\rustc_codegen_ssa\src\back\link.rs so I'll look if I can extract it somewhere.

nagisa · 2021-09-17T12:56:44Z

compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/archive.rs

+
+fn find_dlltool(sess: &Session) -> OsString {
+    // When cross-compiling first try binary prefixed with target triple
+    if sess.host.llvm_target != sess.target.llvm_target {


llvm_target is probably not the best way to check for this. There are many llvm target triples that are actually equivalent in the end. (e.g. i686-pc-windows-gnu and i686-unknown-windows-gnu and e.g. json targets could specify either).

nagisa · 2021-09-17T12:59:47Z

compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/archive.rs

+        } else {
+            prefixed_dlltool.to_string()
+        };
+        for dir in env::split_paths(&env::var_os("PATH").unwrap_or_default()) {


This should also either verify that the binary is executable at all in some way or provide a way to override this detection. Right now if the system is borked enough to have a non-working i686-w64-mingw32-dlltool but a working dlltool, then there is fairly little the user user can do to work around the problem.

TBH the more I think about this approach the more hacky it seems.

nagisa · 2021-09-17T13:01:10Z

src/test/run-make/raw-dylib-alt-calling-convention/Makefile

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # Test the behavior of #[link(.., kind = "raw-dylib")] with alternative calling conventions.

-# only-i686-pc-windows-msvc
+# only-i686-pc-windows-gnu


These tests are supposed to eventually test both architectures, right?

Yeah, I just didn't want to make spend time on proper fix yet.

mati865 · 2021-09-17T18:49:16Z

With #89025 it's clear how this approach is lacking and won't help much to stabilise raw-dylib.
I'll reach out mstorsjo from LLVM if he can find his patch for long import lib support in LLVM. I think there is no point to keep it open in meantime.

iainnicol · 2021-09-20T20:18:00Z

With #89025 it's clear how this approach is lacking and won't help much to stabilise raw-dylib.

Can you not use just the syntax

func_name @ordinal?

As a separate point, we should probably double-quote the func_name, in case func_name is a def-file keyword.

…woerister Implement raw-dylib support for windows-gnu Add support for `#[link(kind = "raw-dylib")]` on windows-gnu targets. Work around binutils's linker's inability to read import libraries produced by LLVM by calling out to the binutils `dlltool` utility to create an import library from a temporary .DEF file; this approach is effectively a slightly refined version of `@mati865's` earlier attempt at this strategy in PR rust-lang#88801. (In particular, this attempt at this strategy adds support for `#[link_ordinal(...)]` as well.) In support of rust-lang#58713.

…woerister Implement raw-dylib support for windows-gnu Add support for `#[link(kind = "raw-dylib")]` on windows-gnu targets. Work around binutils's linker's inability to read import libraries produced by LLVM by calling out to the binutils `dlltool` utility to create an import library from a temporary .DEF file; this approach is effectively a slightly refined version of ``@mati865's`` earlier attempt at this strategy in PR rust-lang#88801. (In particular, this attempt at this strategy adds support for `#[link_ordinal(...)]` as well.) In support of rust-lang#58713.

…woerister Implement raw-dylib support for windows-gnu Add support for `#[link(kind = "raw-dylib")]` on windows-gnu targets. Work around binutils's linker's inability to read import libraries produced by LLVM by calling out to the binutils `dlltool` utility to create an import library from a temporary .DEF file; this approach is effectively a slightly refined version of ```@mati865's``` earlier attempt at this strategy in PR rust-lang#88801. (In particular, this attempt at this strategy adds support for `#[link_ordinal(...)]` as well.) In support of rust-lang#58713.

…woerister Implement raw-dylib support for windows-gnu Add support for `#[link(kind = "raw-dylib")]` on windows-gnu targets. Work around binutils's linker's inability to read import libraries produced by LLVM by calling out to the binutils `dlltool` utility to create an import library from a temporary .DEF file; this approach is effectively a slightly refined version of `@mati865's` earlier attempt at this strategy in PR rust-lang#88801. (In particular, this attempt at this strategy adds support for `#[link_ordinal(...)]` as well.) In support of rust-lang#58713.

…dylib, r=michaelwoerister Fix MinGW target detection in raw-dylib LLVM target doesn't have to be the same as Rust target so relying on it is wrong. It was one of concerns in rust-lang#88801 that was not fixed in rust-lang#90782.

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Tracking issue for RFC 2627: #[link(kind="raw-dylib")] #58713

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Implement raw-dylib support for windows-gnu #90782

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