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Link mimalloc with --as-needed on Linux - #8211
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I wonder if its worth filing a mimalloc bug to let them know about this issue? |
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I dunno. I'm still very surprised there are any systems that don't have libatomic.so. libgcc is ubiquitous. |
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I guess its always available in the package repo, but not installed on very minimal images? i.e. you can install a base linux setup without needing this particular package (libatomic1) |
The mimalloc CMake code unconditionally adds libatomic to its link dependencies, but it's not actually needed on the modern systems that we're building for. Adding the --as-needed flag causes the linker to only link against the following libraries if they provide symbols that are actually needed. For static linking, we wrap mimalloc's injected dependencies in -Wl,--as-needed since they surface all the way up to the final link line for each tool (I don't think it would hurt to just link all the tools with --as-needed but this seemed cleaner). For dynamic linking, it's sufficient to just make the libmimalloc.so link with --as-needed.
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The mimalloc CMake code unconditionally adds libatomic to its link
dependencies, but it's not actually needed on the modern systems
that we're building for. Adding the --as-needed flag causes the
linker to only link against the following libraries if they
provide symbols that are actually needed.
For static linking, we wrap mimalloc's injected dependencies in
-Wl,--as-needed since they surface all the way up to the final
link line for each tool (I don't think it would hurt to just
link all the tools with --as-needed but this seemed cleaner).
For dynamic linking, it's sufficient to just make the libmimalloc.so
link with --as-needed.
As a drive-by cleanup, also make mimalloc a private dependency of
libbinaryen.
Fixes emscripten-core/emsdk#928