[lld] Add (ignored) /link flag to lld-link for compatibility with MSVC link.exe (#168364)

Various build tools may produce command lines invoking clang-cl and
lld-link which contain /link twice like so: e.g. `clang-cl.exe
sanitycheckcpp.cc /Fesanitycheckcpp.exe .... /link /link ...`

If link.exe is used, it ignores the extra `/link` and just issues a
warning, however lld-link tries to treat `/link` as a file name.

This PR adds a flag which is ignored in order to improve compatibility
with link.exe

There's some extra context including an "in-the-wild" example and
reproducer of the problem here:
https://github.com/frankier/meson_clang_win_activation

Co-authored-by: Frankie Robertson <frankie@robertson.name>
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Frankie Robertson
2025-11-21 23:41:29 +02:00
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parent 68ba2864d9
commit 86cbb36b36
3 changed files with 7 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -862,6 +862,9 @@ opt::InputArgList ArgParser::parse(ArrayRef<const char *> argv) {
<< "', did you mean '" << nearest << "'";
}
if (args.hasArg(OPT_link))
Warn(ctx) << "ignoring /link, did you pass it multiple times?";
if (args.hasArg(OPT_lib))
Warn(ctx) << "ignoring /lib since it's not the first argument";

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@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ def noimplib : F<"noimplib">,
def lib : F<"lib">,
HelpText<"Act like lib.exe; must be first argument if present">;
def libpath : P<"libpath", "Additional library search path">;
def link : F<"link">, HelpText<"Ignored for compatibility">;
def linkrepro : Joined<["/", "-", "/?", "-?"], "linkrepro:">,
MetaVarName<"directory">,
HelpText<"Write repro.tar containing inputs and command to reproduce link">;

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@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ LIBHELP: OVERVIEW: LLVM Lib
# RUN: env LLD_IN_TEST=1 not lld-link /WX /lib 2>&1 | FileCheck -check-prefix=LIBBAD %s
LIBBAD: ignoring /lib since it's not the first argument
# RUN: env LLD_IN_TEST=1 not lld-link /link 2>&1 | FileCheck -check-prefix=LINKBAD %s
LINKBAD: ignoring /link, did you pass it multiple times?
# RUN: yaml2obj %p/Inputs/hello32.yaml -o %t.obj
# RUN: not lld-link /out:/ %t.obj 2>&1 | FileCheck -check-prefix=DIR %s
DIR: cannot open output file