LLD is now shipped with Rust!

.appveyor.yml

@@ -65,9 +65,7 @@ install:
 build: false
 
 before_test:
-  - mkdir bin
-  - mklink "bin\ld.exe" "C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin\lld.exe"
-  - set PATH=%CD%\bin;C:\msys64\mingw%MSYS_BITS%\bin;C:\msys64\usr\bin;%PATH%
+  - set PATH=C:\msys64\mingw%MSYS_BITS%\bin;C:\msys64\usr\bin;%PATH%
   - rustup component add rust-src
   - set RUST_BACKTRACE=1
   - if not exist %USERPROFILE%\.cargo\bin\cargo-install-update.exe cargo install cargo-update

.travis.yml

@@ -19,29 +19,12 @@ os:
   - linux
   - osx
 
-addons:
-  apt:
-    sources:
-      - llvm-toolchain-trusty-5.0
-    packages:
-      - lld-5.0
-
 cache:
   directories:
     - $HOME/.cargo
     - $HOME/.xargo
     - $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/target
 
-before_install:
-  - |
-    if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]]; then
-      set -e
-      LLVM_URL="https://releases.llvm.org/5.0.1/clang+llvm-5.0.1-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz"
-      travis_retry wget -O llvm.tar.xz -nv ${LLVM_URL}
-      tar -xJ -f llvm.tar.xz
-      export PATH="`pwd`/clang+llvm-5.0.1-final-x86_64-apple-darwin/bin:$PATH"
-    fi
-
 before_script:
   - rustup component add rust-src
   - (test -x $HOME/.cargo/bin/cargo-install-update || cargo install cargo-update)

blog/content/second-edition/posts/02-minimal-rust-kernel/index.md

@@ -132,11 +132,10 @@ We add the following build-related entries:
 
 
 ```json
-"linker-flavor": "ld",
-"linker": "ld.lld",
+"linker-flavor": "ld.lld",
 ```
 
-Instead of using the platform's default linker (which might not support Linux targets), we use the cross platform [LLD] linker for linking our kernel.
+Instead of using the platform's default linker (which might not support Linux targets), we use the cross platform [LLD] linker for linking our kernel. LLD is shipped with Rust since the `2018-03-05` nightly.
 
 [LLD]: https://lld.llvm.org/
 
@@ -260,10 +259,6 @@ Let's try it:
     Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.29 secs
 ```
 
-(If you're getting a linking error because LLD could not be found, see our “[Installing LLD]” guide.)
-
-[Installing LLD]: ./second-edition/extra/installing-lld/index.md
-
 It worked! We see that `xargo` cross-compiled the `core` library for our new custom target and then continued to compile our `blog_os` crate.
 
 Now we are able to build our kernel for a bare metal target. However, our `_start` entry point, which will be called by the boot loader, is still empty. So let's output something to screen from it.

x86_64-blog_os.json

@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
   "target-pointer-width": "64",
   "target-c-int-width": "32",
   "os": "none",
-  "linker-flavor": "ld",
-  "linker": "ld.lld",
+  "linker-flavor": "ld.lld",
   "executables": true,
   "features": "-mmx,-sse,+soft-float",
   "disable-redzone": true,