[LLD] [MinGW] Allow linking to DLLs directly

As the COFF linker is capable of linking directly against a DLL now
(after D104530, as long as it is running in mingw mode), don't error
out here but successfully load libraries specified with "-l" from DLLs
if that's what ld.bfd would have matched.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104531

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/lld/MinGW/Driver.cpp b/lld/MinGW/Driver.cpp
index 734f4092a666..27cb508403f6 100644
--- a/lld/MinGW/Driver.cpp
+++ b/lld/MinGW/Driver.cpp
@@ -142,16 +142,10 @@ searchLibrary(StringRef name, ArrayRef<StringRef> searchPaths, bool bStatic) {
     if (!bStatic) {
       if (Optional<std::string> s = findFile(dir, name + ".lib"))
         return *s;
-      if (Optional<std::string> s = findFile(dir, "lib" + name + ".dll")) {
-        error("lld doesn't support linking directly against " + *s +
-              ", use an import library");
-        return "";
-      }
-      if (Optional<std::string> s = findFile(dir, name + ".dll")) {
-        error("lld doesn't support linking directly against " + *s +
-              ", use an import library");
-        return "";
-      }
+      if (Optional<std::string> s = findFile(dir, "lib" + name + ".dll"))
+        return *s;
+      if (Optional<std::string> s = findFile(dir, name + ".dll"))
+        return *s;
     }
   }
   error("unable to find library -l" + name);