LLVM-LIB(1)

💖 LLVM-LIB(1) — the lib.exe-compatible library tool, but make it LLVM 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the llvm-lib manual page, from the LLVM crew ✨ this is the lib.exe-compatible library tool and she is serving compatibility realness 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

llvm-lib — LLVM lib.exe compatible library tool 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

llvm-lib [/libpath:<path>] [/out:<output>] [/llvmlibthin] [/ignore]
[/machine] [/nologo] [files...]

that's the whole vibe check right there, no cap 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically, llvm-lib is a command that's intended to be a lib.exe compatible tool 🫡 for the general description, go peek at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7ykb2k5f — that's the reference, bestie, go read it 💜

but here's the tea: llvm-lib has the following extensions of its own, and they're lowkey iconic:

• Bitcode files in symbol tables. llvm-lib includes symbols from both bitcode files and regular object files in the symbol table. yes bestie, both. she's inclusive like that 💅
• Creating thin archives. The /llvmlibthin option causes llvm-lib to create a thin archive that contains only the symbol table and the header for the various members. These files are much smaller, but ⚠️ they are not compatible with link.exe — lld can handle them tho, so iykyk 😭🔥

not me reminding you that thin archives are a whole commitment — smaller files, but link.exe will simply not know her 💀 lld gets it tho 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/) — the group chat admins of compilers fr fr 💖

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

2003-2024, LLVM Project ✨

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🎀🦋 this page is page 12, dated 2024-07-18, and it's the LLVM-LIB(1) page — love her, bookmark her, use her responsibly 💅💖 periodt ✨