mpw / sold

The sold linker

sold: The commercial version of the mold linker

sold is the commercial version of the mold linker. Unlike the mold linker whose license is AGPL, the sold linker is available under an ordinary, per-user, per-month/year commercial license. sold is a superset of mold; in addition to all the mold's features, sold supports macOS/iOS.

Please see the End User Agreement License for the details about licensing terms. You can purchase a subscription or obtain an evaluation license at our website.

How to build

The build instruction for sold is the same as for mold except that you check out https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold.git instead of https://github.com/rui314/mold.git. For the details, please see https://github.com/rui314/mold#how-to-build.

How to use

sold is installed under several different executable names as follows:

1. ld.sold: GNU ld-compatible linker for Linux and other ELF-based systems. The instructions to use sold on Linux is the same as the mold linker. For the details, see the mold's README.

2. ld64.sold: Apple's ld-compatible mode for macOS/iOS. You can use the linker on macOS by adding --ld-path=path/to/ld64.sold to the linker flags.

3. ld.mold and ld64.mold: They are just aliases for ld.sold and ld64.sold, respectively, so that you don't have to change the linker name in your build system from mold to sold after purchasing a commercial license.