LLVM-LIBTOOL-DARWIN(1)

LLVM-LIBTOOL-DARWIN(1) 🦋

okay so hiii bestie 💖 this is the LLVM manual page for llvm-libtool-darwin — yes, the whole vibe is “let’s make a library on Darwin and make it cute.” No cap, every detail is still here.

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NAME ✨

llvm-libtool-darwin — LLVM tool for creating libraries for Darwin 🍓

SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

DESCRIPTION 💅

llvm-libtool-darwin is a tool for creating static and dynamic libraries for Darwin. It’s giving “library-maker main character energy” 😌

For most scenarios, it works as a drop-in replacement for cctools' libtool. So like… yes, bestie, it’s meant to slot in and slay 🫶

OPTIONS 🌈

llvm-libtool-darwin supports the following options:

• -arch_only <architecture> — Build a static library only for the specified <architecture> and ignore all other architectures in the files. One architecture only, periodt ✨
• -D — Use zero for timestamps and UIDs/GIDs. This is set by default. Zeroes are the default vibe 💀
• -filelist <listfile[,dirname]> — Read input file names from <listfile>. 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. If the directory name, dirname, is also specified then it is prepended to each file name in the <listfile>.
• -h, -help — Show help and usage for this command. Your little “what do I do” button 🎀
• -l <x> — Searches for the library libx.a in the library search path. 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 is added to the list of input files. Otherwise, an error is raised. Very “find it or catch these errors” 💅
• -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 directories /lib, /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib.
• -no_warning_for_no_symbols — Do not warn about files that have no symbols. Quiet mode for the symbol-less girlies 🤫
• -warnings_as_errors — Produce a non-zero exit status if any warnings are emitted. Warnings said “not today,” and now they’re errors 😭
• -o <filename> — Specify the output file name. Must be specified exactly once. This is not a “maybe” situation, bestie — exactly once 🚨
• -static — Produces a static library from the input files. Static library time ✨
• -U — Use actual timestamps and UIDs/GIDs. Real values instead of the zeroed-out default 👑
• -V — Display the version of this program and perform any operation specified. Version check plus the operation you already asked for, multitasking icon 💅
• -version — Display the version of this program and exit immediately. Version check and then peace out 🦋

EXIT STATUS ⭐

llvm-libtool-darwin exits with a non-zero exit code if there is an error. Otherwise, it exits with code 0.

So yeah: error = non-zero, all good = 0. Simple as that, fr fr 💜

BUGS 🐛

To report bugs, please visit https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/. Bugs are not the vibe, so go tell the LLVM people 🫶

SEE ALSO 🔥

• llvm-ar(1) — another LLVM tool bestie you might wanna check out 👀

AUTHOR 🌸

Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/). The LLVM Team is literally keeping this whole thing running 24/7 🧚

COPYRIGHT 🎀

2003-2025, LLVM Project

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xoxo, your LLVM bestie 💜 — source/version: 19; date: 2025-01-17; page: LLVM-LIBTOOL-DARWIN(1). Slay and read your man pages responsibly 🦋