[Windows] Compiling with rust-lld causes STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

[MolotovCherry]

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Using rust-lld as the linker breaks Zed. On startup, Zed immediately crashes with a status access violation. Using the default msvc linker appears to work without issue. Unsure whether this is a rust or Zed issue

I originally came across this because I had my config globally set to rust-lld, which unexpectedly caused this.

Edit: Tested with 5ddd343

config.toml

[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
linker = "rust-lld.exe"

Environment

Visual studio 17.9.7 with Windows 11 SDK (10.0.22621.0) and MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools (Latest)

cargo 1.78.0 (54d8815d0 2024-03-26)
release: 1.78.0
commit-hash: 54d8815d04fa3816edc207bbc4dd36bf18014dbc
commit-date: 2024-03-26
host: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
libgit2: 1.7.2 (sys:0.18.2 vendored)
libcurl: 8.6.0-DEV (sys:0.4.72+curl-8.6.0 vendored ssl:Schannel)
os: Windows 10.0.22631 (Windows 11 Professional) [64-bit]

If applicable, attach your ~/Library/Logs/Zed/Zed.log file to this issue.

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[osiewicz]

Does it crash with AV in debug build as well?

[MolotovCherry]

Does it crash with AV in debug build as well?

Yes, it appears to crash in both release and debug builds

[IceSentry]

I've recently experienced the same issue with a600799

Changing the linker back to the default msvc linker worked.

[paul-hansen]

I've seen this before here: rust-lang/rust#111480
It's listed as the last open issue blocking using lld as the default linker on Windows: rust-lang/rust#71520

Note that issue suggests it only happens with lto = "thin" so removing that might be a workaround.

[MolotovCherry]

The Cargo.toml for release profile certainly has lto = "thin", but that doesn't explain the crash on debug profile which doesn't have it. 🤔

[werruww]

If Zed's problems are solved, can you upload a file exe

[werruww]

Is there anyone who has been able to run it on Windows?

[MolotovCherry]

Is there anyone who has been able to run it on Windows?

Many people have and do. It works great for me as well (using msvc linker). (But I don't think this issue report is really the place to ask this)

[MolotovCherry]

If Zed's problems are solved, can you upload a file exe

If you'd like to see some builds, there is an unofficial repo which offers some.

Note: This is not official Zed repo, so I offer no guarantees about anything. If you're in doubt, you can always fork it and build it yourself on github actions.

[USTHzhanglu]

Very disappointed,use

[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
linker = "link.exe"

not useful