completely eliminate dependency on LLD #8726
Description
In celebration of @kubkon's recent accomplishments of improving the self-hosted linker on Mach-O enough to be able to link LLVM, Clang, LLD, and Zig, this issue is to completely rely on our own linker implementation for all targets, and entirely stop linking against LLD. This issue is the spiritual successor to #1535.
- eliminate dependency on LLD for Mach-O #8727
- eliminate dependency on LLD for ELF #17749
- eliminate dependency on LLD for WebAssembly #17750
- eliminate dependency on LLD for COFF/PE #17751
Other Considerations
- miscellaneous features such as linker scripts (related: Zig-based alternative to linker scripts #3206)
- LTO. For our purposes, this would look like suporting LLVM IR bitcode files and using LLVM APIs to turn them into object(s) before completing the linking process.