LLVM-LIBTOOL-DARWIN(1)

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💖 LLVM-LIBTOOL-DARWIN(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the LLVM girlies' guide to llvm-libtool-darwin — the manual page, but make it group chat. sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

llvm-libtool-darwin — the LLVM tool for creating libraries for Darwin. that's it. that's the vibe. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

literally just the tool, some options, and your input files. periodt.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so llvm-libtool-darwin is a tool for creating static and dynamic libraries for Darwin. iconic behavior, no cap. 🎀

and here's the tea: for most scenarios, it works as a drop-in replacement for cctools' libtool. so you can basically just slide it in and carry on. she ate. 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

llvm-libtool-darwin supports the following options — and yes, we're going through all of them, don't scroll:

  • -arch_only <architecture> — builds a static library only for the specified <architecture>, and lowkey ignores all the other architectures chilling in the files. main character architecture only. 🫶
  • -D — uses zero for timestamps and UIDs/GIDs. and bestie, this one is set by default — so if you didn't ask for it, you still got it. 🎀
  • -filelist <listfile[,dirname]> — reads 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, really, she's sensitive about her spaces 😭). if the directory name, dirname, is also specified, then it gets prepended to each file name in the <listfile>. 💖
  • -h, -help — shows help and usage for this command. the "what does any of this mean" button. 🙈
  • -l <x> — searches for the library libx.a in the library search path. ✨special case alert✨: 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. if not… an error is raised. she will not be ignoring that. 💀
  • -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. and the default search path includes the directories /lib, /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib. know your roots. 🌈
  • -no_warning_for_no_symbols — do not warn about files that have no symbols. silence is golden, babe. 🤫
  • -warnings_as_errors — produces a non-zero exit status if any warnings are emitted. so a warning is basically an error now. dramatic? yes. effective? also yes. 🔥
  • -o <filename> — specify the output file name. must be specified exactly once. not zero times, not twice — exactly once. she's monogamous. 💅
  • -static — produces a static library from the input files. 🎀
  • -U — uses actual timestamps and UIDs/GIDs. the opposite of -D, and honestly? the honesty era. ⭐
  • -V — displays the version of this program and performs any operation specified. so she'll tell you who she is and still do the job. multi-tasking queen. 👑
  • -version — displays the version of this program and exits immediately. no operations, no extra tasks, just version then bye. 💨

🌟 EXIT STATUS 🌟

llvm-libtool-darwin exits with a non-zero exit code if there is an error. otherwise, she exits with code 0. clean, simple, no mess. 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

to report bugs, please visit <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/>. the maintainers would love to hear from you (affectionate). 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • llvm-ar(1) <llvm-ar.html> — her cousin. go say hi. 🌸

👑 Author 👑

maintained by the LLVM Team (<https://llvm.org/>). legends, honestly. 🥹

2003-2026, LLVM Project. all the rights, all the vibes. ✨

okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially caught up 💅 — this was LLVM-LIBTOOL-DARWIN(1) from LLVM, version 15, dated 2026-09-09. now go build a library and slay 🦋💖✨

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