This avoids touching the target file if the new file to install
matches the previous one. This avoids rebuilding other files later
needlessly, when upgrading an installation.
This makes the output architecture independent, allowing
the x86_64 GNU binutils binary to be used for other
architectures as well, including arm/arm64 which aren't supported
by binutils.
LLVM does have llvm-rc, which almost does what is needed.
Currently missing features:
- It doesn't run the C preprocessor (which can be wrapped with
a shellscript easily if necessary)
- It chokes on C structs/typedefs normally found in included
C headers
Provide wrappers named <triplet>-gcc and <triplet>-g++ as well,
to ease cross compilation with e.g. autotools, to allow just
specifying --host=<triplet>.
Provide wrappers for objdump and ld that provide specific output
that autotools look for.
Provide <triplet>-strip as a symlink to /bin/true, since there is
no strip tool available yet (and llvm-objcopy doesn't support
COFF yet).
If the libcxx headers already have been installed, adding
-I$LIBCXX/include to the include path breaks some C standard
headers. The libcxx installation provides e.g. stdlib.h, which
does an #include_next <stdlib.h>. If the include path includes
both $LIBCXX/include and the libcxx headers installed to the
target sysroot, the #include_next will pick up the same header
from the next include directory. And due to include guards,
the second inclusion of the libcxx version of the header does
nothing at all, instead of doing yet another #include_next for
picking up the real version of the header.
By adding -nostdinc++, we avoid the possibly installed version
of these headers.
This fixes rebuilding libunwind after libcxx has been built
and installed.
This version of mingw-w64 provides a few more import libraries
for aarch64, and allows using a lot more uncommon stdio functions
with ucrtbase.
The new libcxx version allows forcing using win32 threads even
if pthread.h exists.
The MinGW CRT wrapping has a few minor issues that makes native
TLS fail at the moment.
LLVM doesn't support native TLS on windows/aarch64, but emulated
TLS is supported now.
This includes support for a -fdwarf-exceptions flag in clang,
allowing to choose that exception handling model on architectures
where it isn't the default.
Martin Storsjö