mildew 1.0 is the principle salvage and manufacturing-interesting birth of the excessive-flee linker. On Linux-essentially based systems, it must quiet “obedient work” as a sooner tumble-in replace for the default GNU linker for many shopper-land programs. Whenever you are building a gigantic executable which takes an awfully long time to hyperlink, mildew is payment a are trying to behold if it goes to shorten your dangle time. mildew is modest to dangle and clear-cleave to employ. For more critical aspects, find README.

mildew is created by an particular individual that’s conscious of very nicely as to how the Unix linker must quiet behave, as I’m additionally the normal creator of the present version of the LLVM lld linker.

There’s no enjoy new aspects in 1.0. Truly, 1.0 is intensely linked to 0.9.6. That being said, we establish on to dangle it obvious by incrementing a foremost version number that mildew for Linux is now salvage.

Future plans

We are for the time being working on mildew for macOS, and once it is full, we will birth it as mildew 2.0. After that, we will work on mildew for Windows and birth it as 3.0.

mildew 1.0’s offer tree has code for mildew for macOS, however that is pre-alpha. Attain now not employ it except you realize what you are doing.

Adjustments since mildew 0.9.6

• -originate-lib and -discontinue-lib alternatives are added for compatibility with GNU gold and LLVM lld.
• Extra ARM64 relocations are supported.
• Compatibility with glibc 2.2 or prior has improved. (#120)
• Compatibility with valgrind has improved. (#118)
• -Bno-symbolic option has been supported.
• -require-defined option has been supported.