error: broken object file: ddraw.lib

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Bugzilla Link	PR34709
Status	NEW
Importance	P normal
Reported by	Vladimir Panteleev (llvm@thecybershadow.net)
Reported on	2017-09-22 20:57:48 -0700
Last modified on	2019-06-08 06:56:13 -0700
Version	unspecified
Hardware	PC Linux
CC	llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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lld-link can't seem to be able to link some Microsoft .lib files. One example
of this is ddraw.lib from the DirectX 7 SDK.

Upon attempting to read the file, lld prints:

error: broken object file: ddraw.lib(ddraw.dll)

and exits.

Since the ddraw.lib file is publicly available, I've mirrored it here:
https://dump.thecybershadow.net/cf12728e199866ddb654463cd555f7c7/ddraw.lib

Other examples of files that cause lld-link to fail with the same error are
dsound.dll (from the same SDK), and ltkrn_n.lib from the LeadTools SDK.

[Quuxplusone]

LLD 8.0.0 now prints:

lld-link: error: ddraw.lib(DDRAW.dll): .idata$4 should not refer to special section 0

Linking still fails.