| author |  Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com> 2026-10-10 02:20:48-04:00 |
| committer |  Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org> 2026-10-11 19:04:08+02:00 |
| log | c6a67f1945f4ebba677b71ea8be141fe6f0fe380 |
| tree | e41da2b4ddcc9b29cd7d66824fbaf03d30a8af1c |
| parent | 6b5a35e4ff3d2a18eb21be4656eeaa6812e223f1 |
link/Lld: always pass -pie or -no-pie for executables
When linking an executable, Zig only passed -pie when building a PIE
and otherwise relied on LLD defaulting to non-PIE. That default isn't
guaranteed: OpenBSD's system LLD defaults to PIE. With Zig built
against it, non-PIE executables were linked as PIE, failing against
non-PIC objects. For example, building stage3 on OpenBSD/aarch64
fails while generating the langref, when the global assembly doctest
is linked for x86_64-linux:
error: ld.lld: relocation R_X86_64_32S cannot be used against local
symbol; recompile with -fPIC
note: referenced by atomics.zig:104 (compiler_rt/atomics.zig:104)
Pass -no-pie explicitly in the non-PIE case so the output matches
comp.config.pie regardless of how LLD was built.1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
src
link
src/link/Lld.zig+4-2
| ... | ... | @@ -1029,8 +1029,10 @@ fn elfLink(lld: *Lld, arena: Allocator) !void { |
| 1029 | 1029 | try argv.append("-shared"); |
| 1030 | 1030 | } |
| 1031 | 1031 | |
| 1032 | if (comp.config.pie and output_mode == .Exe) { | |
| 1033 | try argv.append("-pie"); | |
| 1032 | if (output_mode == .Exe) { | |
| 1033 | // Always be explicit: some lld builds (e.g. OpenBSD's) default | |
| 1034 | // to PIE, which breaks non-PIE executables for other targets. | |
| 1035 | try argv.append(if (comp.config.pie) "-pie" else "-no-pie"); | |
| 1034 | 1036 | } |
| 1035 | 1037 | |
| 1036 | 1038 | if (is_exe_or_dyn_lib and target.os.tag == .netbsd) { |