Linking error when compiled to arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc
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Target: 32-bit Arm processors (armv6, armv7, thumb...), including 64-bit Arm in AArch32 state
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Toolchain: MSVC, Operating system: Windows
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I'm getting similar one, since PS C:\Code> cargo new hello-word
PS C:\Code> cd hello-world
PS C:\Code\hello-world> cargo build --target arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc
Compiling hello-world v0.1.0 (C:\Code\hello-world)
error: linking with `link.exe` failed: exit code: 1120
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= note: "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\Professional\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.43.34808\\bin\\HostX64\\arm64\\link.exe" "/NOLOGO" "C:\\Users\\damacek\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\rustcvHVlMY\\symbols.o" "<7 object files omitted>" "<sysroot>\\lib\\rustlib\\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\\lib/{libstd-*,libpanic_unwind-*,libwindows_targets-*,librustc_demangle-*,libstd_detect-*,libhashbrown-*,librustc_std_workspace_alloc-*,libunwind-*,libcfg_if-*,liballoc-*,librustc_std_workspace_core-*,libcore-*,libcompiler_builtins-*}.rlib" "kernel32.lib" "kernel32.lib" "ntdll.lib" "userenv.lib" "ws2_32.lib" "dbghelp.lib" "/defaultlib:msvcrt" "/machine:arm64ec" "softintrin.lib" "/NXCOMPAT" "/OUT:C:\\Code\\hello-world\\target\\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\\debug\\deps\\hello_world.exe" "/OPT:REF,NOICF" "/DEBUG" "/PDBALTPATH:%_PDB%" "/NATVIS:<sysroot>\\lib\\rustlib\\etc\\intrinsic.natvis" "/NATVIS:<sysroot>\\lib\\rustlib\\etc\\liballoc.natvis" "/NATVIS:<sysroot>\\lib\\rustlib\\etc\\libcore.natvis" "/NATVIS:<sysroot>\\lib\\rustlib\\etc\\libstd.natvis"
= note: some arguments are omitted. use `--verbose` to show all linker arguments
= note: symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)␍
C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals␍
error: could not compile `hello-world` (bin "hello-world") due to 1 previous error@dpaoliello Any ideas? |
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I can reproduce with 1.86, will investigate... |
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I have a root cause and a fix: Rust is decorating all symbols with |
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Fix linking statics on Arm64EC
Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```
It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.
The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.
Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.
Fixes rust-lang#138541
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Fix linking statics on Arm64EC
Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```
It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.
The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.
Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.
Fixes rust-lang#138541
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try-job: dist-aarch64-msvc
try-job: dist-x86_64-msvc
try-job: x86_64-msvc-1
try-job: x86_64-msvc-2
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Fix linking statics on Arm64EC
Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```
It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.
The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.
Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.
CI found another bug: we only apply `DllImport` to non-local statics that aren't foreign items (i.e., in an `extern` block), that is we want to use `DllImport` for statics coming from other Rust crates. However, `__rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable` is a static generated by the Rust compiler if required, but downstream crates consider it a foreign item since it is declared in an `extern "Rust"` block, thus they do not apply `DllImport` to it and so fails to link if it is exported by the previous crate as `DATA`. The fix is to apply `DllImport` to foreign items that are marked with the `rustc_std_internal_symbol` attribute (i.e., we assume they aren't actually foreign and will be in some Rust crate).
Fixes rust-lang#138541
---
try-job: dist-aarch64-msvc
try-job: dist-x86_64-msvc
try-job: x86_64-msvc-1
try-job: x86_64-msvc-2
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Fix linking statics on Arm64EC
Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```
It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.
The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.
Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.
CI found another bug: we only apply `DllImport` to non-local statics that aren't foreign items (i.e., in an `extern` block), that is we want to use `DllImport` for statics coming from other Rust crates. However, `__rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable` is a static generated by the Rust compiler if required, but downstream crates consider it a foreign item since it is declared in an `extern "Rust"` block, thus they do not apply `DllImport` to it and so fails to link if it is exported by the previous crate as `DATA`. The fix is to apply `DllImport` to foreign items that are marked with the `rustc_std_internal_symbol` attribute (i.e., we assume they aren't actually foreign and will be in some Rust crate).
Fixes rust-lang#138541
---
try-job: dist-aarch64-msvc
try-job: dist-x86_64-msvc
try-job: x86_64-msvc-1
try-job: x86_64-msvc-2
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Fix linking statics on Arm64EC
Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```
It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.
The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.
Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.
CI found another bug: we only apply `DllImport` to non-local statics that aren't foreign items (i.e., in an `extern` block), that is we want to use `DllImport` for statics coming from other Rust crates. However, `__rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable` is a static generated by the Rust compiler if required, but downstream crates consider it a foreign item since it is declared in an `extern "Rust"` block, thus they do not apply `DllImport` to it and so fails to link if it is exported by the previous crate as `DATA`. The fix is to apply `DllImport` to foreign items that are marked with the `rustc_std_internal_symbol` attribute (i.e., we assume they aren't actually foreign and will be in some Rust crate).
Fixes rust-lang#138541
---
try-job: dist-aarch64-msvc
try-job: dist-x86_64-msvc
try-job: x86_64-msvc-1
try-job: x86_64-msvc-2
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Fix linking statics on Arm64EC
Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```
It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.
The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.
Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.
CI found another bug: we only apply `DllImport` to non-local statics that aren't foreign items (i.e., in an `extern` block), that is we want to use `DllImport` for statics coming from other Rust crates. However, `__rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable` is a static generated by the Rust compiler if required, but downstream crates consider it a foreign item since it is declared in an `extern "Rust"` block, thus they do not apply `DllImport` to it and so fails to link if it is exported by the previous crate as `DATA`. The fix is to apply `DllImport` to foreign items that are marked with the `rustc_std_internal_symbol` attribute (i.e., we assume they aren't actually foreign and will be in some Rust crate).
Fixes rust-lang#138541
---
try-job: dist-aarch64-msvc
try-job: dist-x86_64-msvc
try-job: x86_64-msvc-1
try-job: x86_64-msvc-2
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Fix linking statics on Arm64EC
Arm64EC builds recently started to fail due to the linker not finding a symbol:
```
symbols.o : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol #_ZN3std9panicking11EMPTY_PANIC17hc8d2b903527827f1E (EC Symbol)
C:\Code\hello-world\target\arm64ec-pc-windows-msvc\debug\deps\hello_world.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
```
It turns out that `EMPTY_PANIC` is a new static variable that was being exported then imported from the standard library, but when exporting LLVM didn't prepend the name with `#` (as only functions are prefixed with this character), whereas Rust was prefixing with `#` when attempting to import it.
The fix is to have Rust not prefix statics with `#` when importing.
Adding tests discovered another issue: we need to correctly mark static exported from dylibs with `DATA`, otherwise MSVC's linker assumes they are functions and complains that there is no exit thunk for them.
CI found another bug: we only apply `DllImport` to non-local statics that aren't foreign items (i.e., in an `extern` block), that is we want to use `DllImport` for statics coming from other Rust crates. However, `__rust_no_alloc_shim_is_unstable` is a static generated by the Rust compiler if required, but downstream crates consider it a foreign item since it is declared in an `extern "Rust"` block, thus they do not apply `DllImport` to it and so fails to link if it is exported by the previous crate as `DATA`. The fix is to apply `DllImport` to foreign items that are marked with the `rustc_std_internal_symbol` attribute (i.e., we assume they aren't actually foreign and will be in some Rust crate).
Fixes rust-lang#138541
---
try-job: dist-aarch64-msvc
try-job: dist-x86_64-msvc
try-job: x86_64-msvc-1
try-job: x86_64-msvc-2
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On windows compiled to
arm64ec-pc-windows-msvctarget with-Zbuild-stdgot linking error:Rust 1.87.0-nightly (ecade53 2025-03-14)
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