Add `rust-mingw` component for `*-windows-gnullvm` hosts #147536

mati865 · 2025-10-09T18:23:31Z

mati865 · 2025-10-09T18:26:30Z

Tested locally on Windows but a shareable build would be useful.
@bors try jobs=dist-x86_64-linux,dist-x86_64-windows-gnullvm

Windows-gnullvm self-contained try-job: dist-x86_64-linux try-job: dist-x86_64-windows-gnullvm

mati865 · 2025-10-09T19:01:54Z

@bors try jobs=dist-x86_64-linux,dist-x86_64-windows-gnullvm

Windows-gnullvm self-contained try-job: dist-x86_64-linux try-job: dist-x86_64-windows-gnullvm

rust-bors · 2025-10-09T22:06:37Z

☀️ Try build successful (CI)
Build commit: 87a3415 (87a3415f29207b7d5add0b9bd83328ee459e7843, parent: 0b278a539440be291466ea463a9b6310eaf4d7bb)

src/bootstrap/src/core/build_steps/dist.rs

mati865 · 2025-10-28T19:04:58Z

Seems to work nicely, even with -Zbuild-std without having Clang in PATH.
What's left here is a cleanup and reconsideration of what would be the best way to move this forward.

estebank · 2025-11-04T16:49:36Z

@mati865 are there any blockers we could help you with?

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs

mati865 · 2025-11-05T20:50:27Z

@estebank I had a few ideas how to refactor it, but none of them turned out satisfying. I'm going to take another stab at it this week.

mati865 · 2025-11-12T16:41:59Z

@bors try jobs=dist-x86_64-linux,dist-x86_64-windows-gnullvm

Windows-gnullvm self-contained try-job: dist-x86_64-linux try-job: dist-x86_64-windows-gnullvm

rust-bors · 2025-11-12T19:53:23Z

☀️ Try build successful (CI)
Build commit: da8dd69 (da8dd699e467041c9cfdc421e44ac8758d9288e2, parent: 2fcbda6c1a70606bdb09857e01d01fc6229da712)

rustbot · 2025-11-17T18:09:21Z

Some changes occurred in compiler/rustc_codegen_cranelift

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This PR modifies src/bootstrap/src/core/config.

If appropriate, please update CONFIG_CHANGE_HISTORY in src/bootstrap/src/utils/change_tracker.rs.

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src/bootstrap/src/core/build_steps/dist.rs

petrochenkov · 2025-11-18T10:59:52Z

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs

        return ret;
    }

+    // When using a supported target in self-contained linker mode, we want to use rust-lld directly.


I dislike this at pretty fundamental level.

-Clink-self-contained isn't supposed to change the linker flavor, only to change where the linker (and other things) are looked up.

If windows-gnullvm targets can be built with naked linker, without clang, then perhaps they should change the default linker and linker flavor to ld.lld?
Are windows-gnullvm targets stable enough for it to be considered a breaking change?

Also, in self-contained mode we are supposed to use ld.lld from the self-contained directory, not rust-lld.
It seems like the logic below results in that, but then the comment above is misleading.

If windows-gnullvm targets can be built with naked linker, without clang

Basically all the targets can be linked with just a linker without CC driver given you provide required objects and libraries.
Currently, Rust ships those libraries and objects for *-pc-windows-gnu (in rust-mingw component) and some musl targets (I don't know which ones exactly; definitely x86_64 and aarch64). Which means they could just pass those shipped libs to the linker directly if they are using them anyway (so we are using -Clink-self-contained).

For example, take x86_64-pc-windows-gnu. It ships x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe and ld.exe, but it doesn't really matter whether we call x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -l[rust objects] -l[mingw-w64 objects and libs] -o result.exe or ld -l[rust objects] -l[mingw-w64 objects and libs] -o result.exe as long as you add the flags in the correct form, i.e. prepend them with -Wl, when using GCC as the proxy. It was just easier to ship GCC binary and reuse the code.

What I'm trying to achieve here is to pass the libraries directly to LLD in self-contained-mode for windows-gnullvm hosts, so it can run similarly to windows-gnu hosts even when there is no mingw-w64 toolchain installed. But also keep the previous behaviour, which will call x86_64-w64-mingw32-clang from PATH if it finds one.
Shipping clang is difficult because of its sheer size, so writing a wrapper that just calls LLD would be more feasible.

then perhaps they should change the default linker and linker flavor to ld.lld?

This would be a groundbreaking change. That would mean it no longer uses user's toolchain and libraries. I think this would be pretty bad.

Also, in self-contained mode we are supposed to use ld.lld from the self-contained directory, not rust-lld.

There are no self-contained binaries, only lib/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm/bin/gcc-ld/ which contains various wrappers over rust-lld.

There are no self-contained binaries, only lib/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm/bin/gcc-ld/ which contains various wrappers over rust-lld.

Hmm, I thought they were already moved, they should be moved eventually anyway.

So the musl situation is pretty similar to windows-gnullvm.
Musl targets ship all the necessary library self-contained components, and support -Clink-self-contained=yes, but do not ship C compiler, so it still has to come from somewhere.
I suspect -Clink-self-contained=yes -Clinker=rust-lld will also work on musl targets, because the C compiler isn't strictly required (need to check, maybe some bits are missing if nobody tried it in practice).

Perhaps windows-gnullvm targets can use the same scheme for now?
If external clang is available, then -Clink-self-contained=yes it'll just work, otherwise you'll have to add -Clinker=rust-lld/lld/ld.lld or -Clinker-flavor=ld.lld/etc explicitly.
Doesn't look too bad, considering that adding -Clink-self-contained=yes already requires modifying RUSTFLAGS or similar.

Ideally, maybe target.linker/target.linker_flavor should be maps keyed on self-contained mode?
A number of other target options, like link args, are already effectively keyed on it.

Sorry for not responding here, unlike comments in other threads, these two didn't appear until I reloaded the page. I'm working on the reply.

So the musl situation is pretty similar to windows-gnullvm.

Indeed, but there is also windows-gnu target that automagically works even without any toolchain present. I suppose #146634 wouldn't be really resolved until windows-gnullvm achieves the same ease of use.

I suspect -Clink-self-contained=yes -Clinker=rust-lld will also work on musl targets, because the C compiler isn't strictly required (need to check, maybe some bits are missing if nobody tried it in practice).

As expected, musl can be linked even from Windows (without installing C toolchain) using rust-lld:

$ cargo rustc --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl -- -C linker=rust-lld --print link-args Compiling hello v0.1.0 (C:\Users\Mateusz\AppData\Local\Temp\hello) "rust-lld" "-flavor" "gnu" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\self-contained\\rcrt1.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\self-contained\\crti.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\self-contained\\crtbeginS.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rustcrjVTMi\\symbols.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\debug\\deps\\hello-b633afb87221af95.0hn8en36v96xwb3pxtfuaekw6.1pf92ub.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\debug\\deps\\hello-b633afb87221af95.4zi0zuc3e5807kuuitkrm1hp6.1pf92ub.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\debug\\deps\\hello-b633afb87221af95.bth0v2gc9orb1c10u9swxzo20.1pf92ub.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\debug\\deps\\hello-b633afb87221af95.cmyh5siroc2drgq92nl1aggss.1pf92ub.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\debug\\deps\\hello-b633afb87221af95.d679eiah7rgb0c88dhs2phow2.1pf92ub.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\debug\\deps\\hello-b633afb87221af95.ejj5a33vx05qjkiomxh9w3pi3.1pf92ub.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\debug\\deps\\hello-b633afb87221af95.633so8zlsqi3o474upohw2vml.1pf92ub.rcgu.o" "--as-needed" "-Bstatic" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libstd-41aed68db6320929.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libpanic_unwind-4bdf01754011de25.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libobject-78de9b4b58319c3f.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libmemchr-7d42fd256ca9b16b.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libaddr2line-bade3d515fdf432c.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libgimli-0d1c62f3a57b1f1d.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libcfg_if-ce119042f44ad7bf.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\librustc_demangle-9cc1afe6fc29ca3b.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libstd_detect-67e48c94909f88ea.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libhashbrown-d1e76ad2465d5d0f.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\librustc_std_workspace_alloc-c50be85be659204e.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libminiz_oxide-e4035dc1596dc912.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libadler2-1ad2df696961e34a.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libunwind-526c8b9064a75bfc.rlib" "-lunwind" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\liblibc-b767c4e796c7d1fc.rlib" "-lc" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\librustc_std_workspace_core-164e461dc8b91b87.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\liballoc-8a769bb083efdeed.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libcore-52b2f7de2b21b91d.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\libcompiler_builtins-b0102340d25581e8.rlib" "-L" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rustcrjVTMi\\raw-dylibs" "-Bdynamic" "--eh-frame-hdr" "-z" "noexecstack" "-L" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\self-contained" "-L" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib" "-o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\debug\\deps\\hello-b633afb87221af95" "--gc-sections" "-static" "-pie" "--no-dynamic-linker" "-z" "text" "-z" "relro" "-z" "now" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\self-contained\\crtendS.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-unknown-linux-musl\\lib\\self-contained\\crtn.o" Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.15s $ llvm-readelf -Wl target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/debug/hello | head -3 Elf file type is DYN (Shared object file) Entry point 0x18de0

Perhaps windows-gnullvm targets can use the same scheme for now?

I had considered that and haven't ruled that out. So, as the stopgap workaround, we'd only ship the libs and objects in rust-mingw, and the user would have to add linker = "rust-lld" to their .cargo/config.toml. This would already be an improvement, compiler team (via MCP) figures out how to make it better, or give up the idea.

Ideally, maybe target.linker/target.linker_flavor should be maps keyed on self-contained mode?
A number of other target options, like link args, are already effectively keyed on it.

Yeah, sounds like a good idea. It'd need an exemption for windows-gnu, but otherwise sounds good.
An open point would be handling of -C link-arg=<arg> because depending on whether cc driver is used, some of the arguments require adding -Wl,. But, with self-contained mode, I wouldn't expect many of such flags being used.

Previously I had though about a new field like self_contained_linker: Option<..>, but this one is better.

Hmm, I thought they were already moved, they should be moved eventually anyway.

Maybe worth opening an issue to keep track of it, or at least start discussions?

Maybe worth opening an issue to keep track of it, or at least start discussions?

Yes, there certainly should be a tracking issue for fine-grained self-contained.
The design is already written on some PR or issue related to lld-on-x86_64-linux stabilization.
I'll add it to my TODO list, just maybe not for today.

Let's land the part about shipping the binaries and supporting the link-contained-option first, and then some fix for the default linker problem separately.

Maybe worth opening an issue to keep track of it, or at least start discussions?

Yes, there certainly should be a tracking issue for fine-grained self-contained. The design is already written on some PR or issue related to lld-on-x86_64-linux stabilization. I'll add it to my TODO list, just maybe not for today.

Tracking Issue for fine-grained -C link-self-contained #149175

petrochenkov · 2025-11-18T11:04:02Z

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs


-// Returns true if linker is located within sysroot
-fn detect_self_contained_mingw(sess: &Session, linker: &Path) -> bool {
-    // Assume `-C linker=rust-lld` as self-contained mode


The logic here pre-dates windows-gnullvm targets, so apparently someone used windows-gnu targets with the naked rust-lld linker, and I see some supports for that in the target specs.
But this PR removes the self-contained mode from windows-gnu + rust-lld mode, what is the reason for that?

Ah, I lost that in one of the refactors of this code.

I happen to know the person who did it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76167/files#diff-862130c0af71054886913befc8084094485fa7d764d95f55644e033e34acd126R1214

He is you? :)
The condition just appeared in 770231e without much discussion.

Yeah, I linked the PR above. I don't recall much from it, but it was based on some other target, perhaps msvc? There were short discussions which happened in another PR, issue, or some other channel.
At least it still works (using Git Bash):

$ PATH=~/.cargo/bin $ echo $PATH /c/Users/Mateusz/.cargo/bin $ cargo +stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu rustc -- -C linker=rust-lld --print link-args Compiling hello v0.1.0 (C:\Users\Mateusz\AppData\Local\Temp\hello) "rust-lld" "-flavor" "gnu" "--dynamicbase" "--disable-auto-image-base" "-m" "i386pep" "--high-entropy-va" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\self-contained\\crt2.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rsbegin.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rustc6zayvo\\symbols.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\debug\\deps\\hello-127ffa693f85d6f7.2utymz0xmf0rjdojntrxnwxhl.07lv0pp.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\debug\\deps\\hello-127ffa693f85d6f7.6k3wyvytftwtg5uhfbmyw0q7h.07lv0pp.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\debug\\deps\\hello-127ffa693f85d6f7.7ui61tfcjpwxt3rr447d9qtxh.07lv0pp.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\debug\\deps\\hello-127ffa693f85d6f7.93fcxlueqzo1240093as1kc9t.07lv0pp.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\debug\\deps\\hello-127ffa693f85d6f7.93zqjlhn2s2sg38q08l74xaxa.07lv0pp.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\debug\\deps\\hello-127ffa693f85d6f7.d5f8xp7512x4zx2jt4zlttk7m.07lv0pp.rcgu.o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\debug\\deps\\hello-127ffa693f85d6f7.bqn8dovbywb8binymch9d4tm0.07lv0pp.rcgu.o" "-Bstatic" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libstd-eda97603dd98e790.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libpanic_unwind-54f0db2b8da74408.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libobject-664c143b09a9bb80.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libmemchr-5fee929e38523ed1.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libaddr2line-057dc260707e05f3.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libgimli-9c7b3da54070bf21.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libcfg_if-7c27d5a26a9f3213.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libwindows_targets-e78218c0825d389d.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\librustc_demangle-2071562e52929051.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libstd_detect-6dd86666987ccc26.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libhashbrown-18468d58cd5a9849.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\librustc_std_workspace_alloc-4bfcf68bee3d0c11.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libminiz_oxide-aa873642d4270c91.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libadler2-aad28720dda5511e.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libunwind-35a53cb7c6b9e1e8.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\liblibc-d89879dfa27b9858.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\librustc_std_workspace_core-14598ccc8530df5e.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\liballoc-b59c84b50c3a3381.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libcore-b566be85b3fb54ac.rlib" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\libcompiler_builtins-ea35a735dade4383.rlib" "-Bdynamic" "-lkernel32" "-lkernel32" "-lkernel32" "-lntdll" "-luserenv" "-lws2_32" "-ldbghelp" "-lgcc_eh" "-l:libpthread.a" "-lmsvcrt" "-lmingwex" "-lmingw32" "-lgcc" "-lmsvcrt" "-lmingwex" "-luser32" "-lkernel32" "--nxcompat" "-L" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\self-contained" "-o" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hello\\target\\debug\\deps\\hello-127ffa693f85d6f7.exe" "--gc-sections" "C:\\Users\\Mateusz\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rustlib\\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\\lib\\rsend.o" Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.78s $ target/debug/hello.exe Hello, world!

BTW, -C linker=ld also works as long as you don't have ld.exe in PATH (so it uses the one from rust-mingw component), although this one probably wasn't intended.

although this one probably wasn't intended

Since we already ship ld.exe and cannot unship it, I don't see problems with supporting it in self-contained mode.
(Just need to eventually move it to self-contained dirs etc etc, like all the other stuff.)

I'd like to clarify that rust-mingw binaries are shipped in self-contained directory (IIRC we worked together on that).
It's just rust-lld and gcc-ld wrappers that are not self-contained:

$ ls ~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/bin/ gcc-ld/ libwinpthread-1.dll* rust-objcopy.exe* wasm-component-ld.exe* libgcc_s_seh-1.dll* rust-lld.exe* self-contained/ $ ls ~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/bin/gcc-ld/ ld.lld.exe* ld64.lld.exe* lld-link.exe* wasm-ld.exe* $ ls ~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/bin/self-contained/ dlltool.exe* GCC-WARNING.txt ld.exe* libwinpthread-1.dll* x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe*

As usual, wasm people also did something special without ever consulting with maintainers of the general linking infra.

You mean wasm-component-ld? There is no standalone version of that. It is just an implementation detail of the wasm32-wasip2 and wasm32-wasip3 targets: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/main/src/tools/wasm-component-ld

petrochenkov · 2025-11-19T15:08:25Z

compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs

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-// Returns true if linker is located within sysroot
-fn detect_self_contained_mingw(sess: &Session, linker: &Path) -> bool {


In any case, it's good to remove the linker parameter from here.

Linker path is never inferred to be "rust-lld" from flavor, so the condition linker == "rust-lld" is true if and only if sess.opts.cg.linker.or(sess.target.linker) == "rust-lld".
It just better to mention this assumption explicitly in a comment.

sess.target.linker == "rust-lld" won't be the case for existing targets other than MSVC, so we can omit it.

Additionally, we can avoid searching through PATH when sess.opts.cg.linker is set, assuming we don't care about -C linker=ld working without -C link-self-contained as noticed in #147536 (comment)

Perhaps this change is worth splitting out of this PR?

Perhaps this change is worth splitting out of this PR?

Sure, why not

mati865 · 2025-11-21T12:53:38Z

@bors try jobs=dist-aarch64-windows-gnullvm,dist-x86_64-windows-gnullvm

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Build commit: 6a40973 (6a40973a039aeb871f49041a963f94a1cc02f5af, parent: e22dab387f6b4f6a87dfc54ac2f6013dddb41e68)

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mati865 · 2025-11-21T15:07:32Z

There were two new commits since last review: abb5f3b and d45c4c0. Everything is squashed now.

I've tested x86_64 via Wine using:

❯ rustup-toolchain-install-master -n gnullvm-self-contained 6a40973a039aeb871f49041a963f94a1cc02f5af -i x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm -c rust-mingw cargo -f

❯ ~/.rustup/toolchains/gnullvm-self-contained/bin/cargo.exe rustc -- -C linker=rust-lld --print link-args

❯ target/debug/hello.exe
0024:err:module:import_dll Library libunwind.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\tmp\\hello\\target\\debug\\hello.exe") not found
0024:err:module:loader_init Importing dlls for L"Z:\\tmp\\hello\\target\\debug\\hello.exe" failed, status c0000135

❯ ~/.rustup/toolchains/gnullvm-self-contained/bin/cargo.exe rustc -- -C linker=rust-lld --print link-args -C target-feature=+crt-static

❯ target/debug/hello.exe
Hello, world!

@rustbot ready

petrochenkov · 2025-11-21T20:13:31Z

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