Building/linking on MSVC fails with LNK1107?

[nabijaczleweli]

Downstream bug: https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/vswhom-sys.rs/issues/3

When building vswhom-sys.rs, @solomoncyj got this:

   Compiling shlex v1.3.0
   Compiling find-msvc-tools v0.1.2
   Compiling libc v0.2.175
   Compiling cc v1.2.38
   Compiling vswhom-sys v0.1.3 (C:\Users\solom\Downloads\vswhom-sys.rs)
error: failed to run custom build command for `vswhom-sys v0.1.3 (C:\Users\solom\Downloads\vswhom-sys.rs)`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `C:\Users\solom\target\debug\build\vswhom-sys-046bce82504c0475\build-script-build` (exit code: 1)
  --- stdout
  cargo:rerun-if-changed=build.rs
  cargo:rerun-if-changed=ext/vswhom.cpp
  OPT_LEVEL = Some(0)
  OUT_DIR = Some(C:\Users\solom\target\debug\build\vswhom-sys-7a4b6afb6681f858\out)
  TARGET = Some(x86_64-pc-windows-msvc)
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=VCINSTALLDIR
  VCINSTALLDIR = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=VSTEL_MSBuildProjectFullPath
  VSTEL_MSBuildProjectFullPath = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=VSCMD_ARG_VCVARS_SPECTRE
  VSCMD_ARG_VCVARS_SPECTRE = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=WindowsSdkDir
  WindowsSdkDir = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=WindowsSDKVersion
  WindowsSDKVersion = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=LIB
  LIB = None
  PATH = Some(C:\Users\solom\target\debug\deps;C:\Users\solom\target\debug;C:\Users\solom\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\oh-my-posh\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\clang\bin;C:\Program Files\NASM;C:\bin;C:\lib;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA app\NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\GitHub CLI\;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\..\GnuPG\bin;C:\Program Files\Monero GUI Wallet\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\LLVM\bin;C:\Program Files\Go\bin;C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\;C:\c\bin;C:\perl\site\bin;C:\perl\bin;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Programs\oh-my-posh\bin\;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Launcher\;C:\Users\solom\.cargo\bin;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Scripts;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\scripts;C:\Users\solom\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\gitkraken\bin;C:\Users\solom\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor\resources\app\bin;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Local\Muse Hub\lib;C:\Users\solom\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\solom\go\bin)
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=INCLUDE
  INCLUDE = None
  HOST = Some(x86_64-pc-windows-msvc)
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CXX_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
  CXX_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CXX_x86_64_pc_windows_msvc
  CXX_x86_64_pc_windows_msvc = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_CXX
  HOST_CXX = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CXX
  CXX = Some(clang++)
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CC_KNOWN_WRAPPER_CUSTOM
  CC_KNOWN_WRAPPER_CUSTOM = None
  RUSTC_WRAPPER = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CC_ENABLE_DEBUG_OUTPUT
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CRATE_CC_NO_DEFAULTS
  CRATE_CC_NO_DEFAULTS = None
  DEBUG = Some(true)
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CXXFLAGS
  CXXFLAGS = Some(-march=native -flto=thin)
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CC_SHELL_ESCAPED_FLAGS
  CC_SHELL_ESCAPED_FLAGS = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_CXXFLAGS
  HOST_CXXFLAGS = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CXXFLAGS_x86_64_pc_windows_msvc
  CXXFLAGS_x86_64_pc_windows_msvc = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=CXXFLAGS_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
  CXXFLAGS_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc = None
  CARGO_ENCODED_RUSTFLAGS = Some(-Ctarget-cpu=native)
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=AR_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
  AR_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=AR_x86_64_pc_windows_msvc
  AR_x86_64_pc_windows_msvc = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_AR
  HOST_AR = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=AR
  AR = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=ARFLAGS
  ARFLAGS = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_ARFLAGS
  HOST_ARFLAGS = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=ARFLAGS_x86_64_pc_windows_msvc
  ARFLAGS_x86_64_pc_windows_msvc = None
  cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=ARFLAGS_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
  ARFLAGS_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc = None
  C:\Users\solom\target\debug\build\vswhom-sys-7a4b6afb6681f858\out\71b29add3157f200-vswhom.o : fatal error LNK1107: invalid or corrupt file: cannot read at 0x1B124

  --- stderr


  error occurred in cc-rs: command did not execute successfully (status code exit code: 1107): "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.44.35207\\bin\\HostX64\\x64\\lib.exe" "-out:C:\\Users\\solom\\target\\debug\\build\\vswhom-sys-7a4b6afb6681f858\\out\\libvswhom.a" "-nologo" "C:\\Users\\solom\\target\\debug\\build\\vswhom-sys-7a4b6afb6681f858\\out\\71b29add3157f200-vswhom.o"

LNK1107 is nominally corruption, but this persists through a de-novo rebuild.

build.rs says:

    let mut cc = cc::Build::new();
    cc.cpp(true);
    cc.file("ext/vswhom.cpp");
    if cc.get_compiler().is_like_msvc() {
        cc.flag("/Zm2000");
    }
    cc.compile("vswhom");

with nothing of interest otherwise, so this looks like an issue with the reporter's setup or with the way cc drives it to me.

[NobodyXu]

The code looks ok, would need more info on the environment to know what's going on.

[solomoncyj]

i think is that cc failed to get the linker env, and called msvc linker over the clang one if clang was used to compile the code

[nabijaczleweli]

Well you are building for MSVC, so if it was built with clang then we've found the issue at hand.

...and looking at the environment dump I do see CXX=clang++ and CXXFLAGS in cc style; it's unclear what this should mean when building for a -msvc quad (beside maybe it should explode with "compiler and linker are different brands" like cmake does).

[solomoncyj]

i have flags to rust that overids the liker to lld-link, and I have enviroment variables pointing to lld-link as the linker.. so maybe the buildscript ovrode the linker, but not the compier

[NobodyXu]

cc doesn't link anything by default though, only compiles an object and archive it

[solomoncyj]

Hmmm, let me set up ar variables and see if it fixes it

[solomoncyj]

ok, exporting AR = llvm-ar fixed it, i think therre should be a toolchain checker to make sure all of them is compatible before compiling, like cmake

[NobodyXu]

Hmmm normally clang does work with ar

Could this be under influence of -flto (we were talking about only enable -flto for -Clinker-plugin-lto)

[solomoncyj]

Cold be a possibility as clang's flto emits llvm IR insted of objects, as lld can optimize it better, but runs the risk of non toolchain not being able to use it

[NobodyXu]

Yes, that's what I'm working on at the moment in #1564