[Development] CMake UNITY_BUILD ( QTBUG-109394 )

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 17 January 2023 07:26:28 PST Volker Hilsheimer via Development 
wrote:
> No idea why windows-11_22h2-mingw11-developer-build is so slow

My experience is that the standard GNU binutils ld is mighty slow on Windows. 
That might be the case for all platforms other than ELF ones, but I don't have 
any non-Windows non-ELF to test on. It has a quadratic symbol search time, so 
it's slow even when cross-compiling and file system access is fast. On Windows, 
filesystem access is not fast.

An LLVM lld build might be faster. This need not be a Clang build, as GCC 
accepts -fuse-ld=lld. I've just tested:

$ gcc -fuse-ld=lld -xc /dev/null
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: main
>>> referenced by start.S:103 (../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:103)
>>>               /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-generic-linux/12/../../../../lib64/
Scrt1.o:(_start)
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status


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  Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
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