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Installing gold linker on OS X

i'm trying to get gold linker on OS X. I tried both brew install binutils (works but there is no gold linker) and install from git head (fails).

Solution

  • Gold is an ELF-only linker. OS X does not use ELF.

    If you are cross-compiling, you probably want to use lld instead.