On 9/25/16, Brian Gesiak <modoca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Eric, > > This is definitely something I'd like to improve. I believe karwa's new > `-tools-directory` option (https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2912 and > https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/4543) could take care of this problem. > If so, we should update docs/Android.md to recommend using that. Could you > try using that? > > As for me, I've found success with the symlink solution up until now. I'm > not sure why it doesn't work in your case... > > I believe that in later versions of Clang, -fuse-ld accepts full paths to > linkers. So it may work if you have a sufficiently recent version -- > although I haven't tried myself. > > - Brian Gesiak > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Eric Wing via swift-dev < > swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > >> I'm being hit by the problem where the wrong linker is being invoked >> when trying to build a program with swiftc for Android. >> >> The problem seems to already be known and reported here, but the >> solutions/workarounds don't fully work for me: >> https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1264 >> >> The only way I can make this work is by removing/renaming my system >> installed /usr/bin/ld.gold so the process can't find it. >> >> >> - Changing my PATH so another ld.gold is found first didn't affect >> things. It looks like it always prefers /usr/bin/ld.gold. >> >> - Adding the symlink for /usr/bin/armv7-none-linux-androideabi-ld.gold >> didn't help (until I removed my /usr/bin/ld.gold >> >> - Using the -use-ld= switch seemed to have absolutely no effect for >> me. (I tried multiple things like armv7 to find an ld.armv7 and also >> tried full explicit paths to the real android ld.gold) >> >> Any ideas on how to fix this? I don't like having to remove my system >> ld.gold. >> >> Thanks, >> Eric >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-dev mailing list >> swift-dev@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev >> >
After a long delay... The -tools-directory flag worked. I also played with -fuse-ld: I'm invoking swiftc, whicn in turn invokes -fuse-ld behind the scenes. I didn't try a full path, but I did try renaming the ld tool to arm-linux-androideabi-ld.gold with the swiftc flag -use-ld. But that seemed to confuse the process. I'm not sure why. But once I saw there was a file called ld.gold in a different ndk directory, the -tools-directory was all I needed. Thanks, Eric _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
