#linker #linux #wild

app wild-linker

A very fast linker for Linux

5 releases (breaking)

Uses new Rust 2024

0.8.0 Jan 16, 2026
0.7.0 Nov 4, 2025
0.6.0 Sep 23, 2025
0.5.0 May 14, 2025
0.4.0 Mar 1, 2025

#430 in Unix APIs

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MIT/Apache

1MB
26K SLoC

Contains (ELF exe/lib, 3KB) tests/bins/gnu/x86_64/crt1.o, (ELF exe/lib, 2KB) tests/bins/gnu/x86_64/crti.o, (ELF exe/lib, 2KB) tests/bins/gnu/x86_64/crtn.o, (ELF exe/lib, 3KB) tests/bins/sun/x86_64/crt1.o, (ELF exe/lib, 1KB) tests/bins/sun/x86_64/crti.o, (ELF exe/lib, 1KB) tests/bins/sun/x86_64/crtn.o and 1 more.

Wild linker

This crate provides the binary for the wild linker. The binary is named "wild". For more details, see the Wild linker repository.

Dependencies

~24–33MB
~543K SLoC