The llvm-driver, enabled with LLVM_TOOL_LLVM_DRIVER_BUILD combines many llvm executables
into one to save overall toolchain size. This patch adds the capability for lld to be part of the
llvm-driver.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127472
This patch adds an llvm-driver multicall tool that can combine multiple
LLVM-based tools. The build infrastructure is enabled for a tool by
adding the GENERATE_DRIVER option to the add_llvm_executable CMake
call, and changing the tool's main function to a canonicalized
tool_name_main format (i.e. llvm_ar_main, clang_main, etc...).
As currently implemented llvm-driver contains dsymutil, llvm-ar,
llvm-cxxfilt, llvm-objcopy, and clang (if clang is included in the
build).
llvm-driver can be enabled from builds by setting
LLVM_TOOL_LLVM_DRIVER_BUILD=On.
There are several limitations in the current implementation, which can
be addressed in subsequent patches:
(1) the multicall binary cannot currently properly handle
multi-dispatch tools. This means symlinking llvm-ranlib to llvm-driver
will not properly result in llvm-ar's main being called.
(2) the multicall binary cannot be comprised of tools containing
conflicting cl::opt options as the global cl::opt option list cannot
contain duplicates.
These limitations can be addressed in subsequent patches.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109977
Alex Brachet