Clang 3.8 error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=gold-2.25'

Question

I am using Clang 3.8 on CentOS 7.4 to compile a C++ app using third party libraries and their (complicated) makefiles. When including their makefile and running my own I am getting the following error during linkage:

clang-3.8: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=gold-2.25'

I had a look online, some suggestions were to change this to -fuse-ld=gold, but still, that didn't work.

Could someone explain what this problem is and how I can fix it?

UPDATE

Also tried -fuse-ld=lld but I still get an error:

clang-3.8: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=lld'

DhP · Answer 1 · 2020-11-07T20:25:02.333

Also tried -fuse-ld=lld but I still get an error: clang-3.8: error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=lld'

While this might be Arch specific and perhaps not applicable to CentOS:

Just minutes ago i was source-building Godot using scons platform=linuxbsd use_llvm=yes use_lld=yes, facing the same issue.

Turns out, lld apparently is a separate package. (trying ld seemed to fail in combination)

So, yay -S lld (or rather sudo pacman -S lld) , resolved the issue straight away.

[100%] Linking Program        ==> bin/godot.linuxbsd.tools.64.llvm

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '18 at 09:49

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Your clang build does not support linking with gold.

answered Apr 24 '18 at 09:49

Kaveh Vahedipour

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Hi, I also tried the '-fuse-ld=lld' option and this didn't work either? – user997112 Apr 24 '18 at 09:50
`-fuse-ld=` is not supported alltogether. – Kaveh Vahedipour Apr 24 '18 at 09:51
Oh, what would you recommend? I have no knowledge of linking, I just want to create the dynamic library! – user997112 Apr 24 '18 at 09:51
what is the command that you use for linking that gives you the error above? – Kaveh Vahedipour Apr 24 '18 at 09:54
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LDFLAGS+=-shared -fuse-ld=gold-2.25 – user997112 Apr 24 '18 at 09:54
what happens, when you type gold-2.25 in the shell? – Kaveh Vahedipour Apr 24 '18 at 09:56
:) Surprise? What if you type `gold`? – Kaveh Vahedipour Apr 24 '18 at 09:58
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Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/169662/discussion-between-user997112-and-kaveh-vahedipour). – user997112 Apr 24 '18 at 10:02
Drop the entire `-fuse-ld=...`. Let clang figure it out. – Kaveh Vahedipour Apr 24 '18 at 10:03
I now get /..//bin/ld: cannot find crtbeginS.o: No such file or directory and then MyObjectFile.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized – user997112 Apr 24 '18 at 10:09

Clang 3.8 error: invalid linker name in argument '-fuse-ld=gold-2.25'

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