LLVM-LIB(1)

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💖 LLVM-LIB — the lib.exe glow-up 💖

okay bestie, welcome to LLVM-LIB from the LLVM manual set — yes it's a whole section-1 page, and yes it's about to be your new fave 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

llvm-lib — the LLVM lib.exe compatible library tool 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

like… that's the whole vibe. flags in, files in, library out. iconic honestly ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: the llvm-lib command is intended to be a lib.exe compatible tool 🎀. if you want the general description of what that even means, the page points you at:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7ykb2k5f

no cap, go read that for the baseline behaviour. but wait — there's more 💖, because llvm-lib has its own extensions that plain old lib.exe does not have:

  • Bitcode files in symbol tables. 👑 llvm-lib includes symbols from both bitcode files and regular object files in the symbol table. not one or the other — both. slay.
  • Creating thin archives. 🌈 the /llvmlibthin option causes llvm-lib to create a thin archive that contain only the symbol table and the header for the various members. these files are much smaller, but — and this is the important part bestie, don't skip it 😭 — they are not compatible with link.exe. (lld can handle them tho 💅).
⚠️ heads up: thin archives are the cute little snack-size version, but link.exe will simply not fw them. only lld can handle them. know the difference before you ship it 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/). they're the ones keeping this whole thing alive, we love them for it 🌸

2003-2025, LLVM Project

and that's the page babes 🎀 — this was LLVM-LIB(1), page 14, dated 2025-05-22, straight from the LLVM source, mwah 💋 go build something iconic with it ✨🦋

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