MCLinker is a full-fledged system linker for mobile devices. Hence it is fast, small with low memory footprints. MCLinker leverages the LLVM to link object files, and generate shared objects or executable files. Code in MCLinker project is licensed under the "UIUC" BSD-Style license which is compatible with commercial products.
Following systems can be linked successfully
- ARM Android (4.2+) kernel and system image
- FreeBSD buildworld and buildkernel for i386 targets
- ARM Linux kernel 3.x
- Target Platforms: AArch64, ARM, X86, X86_64, x32, MIPS32, MIPS64 and Hexagon machines
- Host OS: X86/X86_64 Linux, Android, Mac OS X and Windows
- For Android NDK r9 and above, developers can simply use -fuse-ld=mcld to link JNI programs by MCLinker
- A system linker
- GNU ld options compatibility
- Support cross linking
- Can be used as a library or a stand-alone tool
- Support multiple targets
- Fast, small with low memory footprint
Date: 2015/09/11
LLVM: 3.8svn (trunk)
MCLinker: 2.11.0-dev, master branch
Date: 2015/09/11
LLVM: 3.8svn (trunk@246954)
MCLinker: 2.10.0-rc, release_210 branch
- ARM exception handling format enhancement
- TLS
- Plugin support (LTO)
- Version script support
- To be one of system linkers of BSD platform
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