LLVM-LIBTOOL-DARWIN(1)

💖 NAME 💖

llvm-libtool-darwin — the LLVM tool for making libraries for Darwin, bestie ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

llvm-libtool-darwin [options] <input files>

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so picture this: llvm-libtool-darwin is literally a tool for creating static and dynamic libraries for Darwin 👑 that's the whole vibe.

And the tea is, for most scenarios it works as a drop-in replacement for cctools' libtool. Like, drop-in. No cap, you can just slide it in there 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

llvm-libtool-darwin supports the following options, and yes we're listing every single one 🎀

• -arch_only <architecture> — build a static library only for the specified <architecture>, and ignore all the other architectures chilling in the files. one (1) architecture only, she's exclusive 🙈
• -color — use colors in output 🌈 pretty output rights!
• -D — use zero for timestamps and UIDs/GIDs. this one is set by default, so it's already your main character even if you don't ask 🫶
• -filelist <listfile[,dirname]> — read input file names from <listfile>. the file names are specified in <listfile> one per line, separated only by newlines. whitespace on a line is assumed to be part of the filename (yes, literally part of it, no trimming 💀). and if the directory name, dirname, is also specified, then it's prepended to each file name in the <listfile> 🔥
• -h, -help — show help and usage for this command 🙋‍♀️
• -help-list — show help and usage for this command without grouping the options into categories. chaotic ungrouped energy, love that for us ⭐
• -l <x> — searches for the library libx.a in the library search path. but wait, plot twist: if the string <x> ends with .o, then the library x is searched for without prepending lib or appending .a. if the library is found, it's added to the list of input files. otherwise, an error is raised — no library, no service 😭
• -L <dir> — adds <dir> to the list of directories in which to search for libraries. the directories are searched in the order in which they are specified with -L, and before the default search path. the default search path includes the directories /lib, /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib 👑
• -no_warning_for_no_symbols — do not warn about files that have no symbols. silence, bestie, please 🤫
• -warnings_as_errors — produce a non-zero exit status if any warnings are emitted. warnings? promoted to errors, congrats on the promotion 💀
• -o <filename> — specify the output file name. and it must be specified exactly once. exactly. once. don't try it 🎯
• -static — produces a static library from the input files 💖
• -U — use actual timestamps and UIDs/GIDs. like the real ones, the true ones ✨
• -V — display the version of this program and perform any operation specified. version info plus the actual work, multitasking icon 🧚
• -version — display the version of this program and exit immediately. bye, that's it, she leaves right after 🦋

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🎀 EXIT STATUS 🎀

llvm-libtool-darwin exits with a non-zero exit code if there's an error. otherwise, it exits with code 0 ⭐ that's it, that's the whole system.

💅 BUGS 💅

To report bugs, please visit <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/> 🫶 go tell them everything, they want to hear it.

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

llvm-ar(1) — go give it a read, iykyk 💜

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/) 👑 icons only.

💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

2003-2023, LLVM Project 🌸

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okay that's the page, bestie ✨ this was page 15, dated 2023-01-14, from LLVM-LIBTOOL-DARWIN(1) — drink some water, go build a library, ily 💜🦋