Newer versions of cargo broke `cargo rustc -- -Clto` by passing
`-Cembed-bitcode=no` even in `--release`. Its somewhat unclear why
this is still the case on latest cargo given it broke, at least,
compilation of Firefox, as discovered by Val at [1]. We take the
approach they used there, even though they later walked it back [2]
but the issues noted there, especially in [3] don't seem
particularly concerning in our case.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=
1640982
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=
1654465
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=
1654465#c5
fi
# Now build with LTO on on both C++ and rust, but without cross-language LTO:
-cargo rustc -v --release -- -C lto
+CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=true cargo rustc -v --release -- -C lto
clang++ -std=c++11 -Wall -flto -O2 -pthread demo.cpp target/release/libldk.a -ldl
echo "C++ Bin size and runtime with only RL (LTO) optimized:"
ls -lha a.out
# or Ubuntu packages). This should work fine on Distros which do more involved
# packaging than simply shipping the rustup binaries (eg Debian should Just Work
# here).
- cargo rustc -v --release -- -C linker-plugin-lto -C lto -C link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld
+ CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=true cargo rustc -v --release -- -C linker-plugin-lto -C lto -C link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld
$CLANGPP -Wall -std=c++11 -flto -fuse-ld=lld -O2 -pthread demo.cpp target/release/libldk.a -ldl
echo "C++ Bin size and runtime with cross-language LTO:"
ls -lha a.out