Cross-compiling mold itself for Windows fails due to missing header about mold

[rui314]

Windows support is planned, but that's after macOS.

[rui314]

Cross-compiling a Windows binary on Linux is pretty tricky, and I'm not sure how much code change you need to make mold build-able for that target. I believe at least you need to build all depending libraries (e.g. zlib, libssl and tbb) for Windows, as the libraries you installed using apt isn't for cross compilation. I'm also not sure if C++20 is supported in that cross build environment.

Could you share a little bit more about what you are trying to achieve by cross-compiling? If you just want to run mold on Windows (for Linux target), you can run it on WSL or in Docker.

[aminya]

Is there any plan to support linking on Windows natively?

[rui314]

There's no plan to support Windows at this moment. I'm working on macOS support now, so it could be next, but I can't promise.

[KungPhoo]

Oh please, please Windows. I'm struggling with a large project and have to use gcc (mingw). I can't use gold nor lld, thus my linker rattles a few minutes on every build.

[rui314]

#190

[aadog]

+1