debug: lld-link /verbose

.github/actions/build-electron/action.yml

@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
-name: 'Build Electron'
-description: 'Builds Electron & Friends'
+name: "Build Electron"
+description: "Builds Electron & Friends"
 inputs:
   target-arch:
-    description: 'Target arch'
+    description: "Target arch"
     required: true
   target-platform:
-    description: 'Target platform, should be linux, win, macos'
+    description: "Target platform, should be linux, win, macos"
     required: true
   artifact-platform:
-    description: 'Artifact platform, should be linux, win, darwin or mas'
+    description: "Artifact platform, should be linux, win, darwin or mas"
     required: true
   step-suffix:
-    description: 'Suffix for build steps'
+    description: "Suffix for build steps"
     required: false
-    default: ''
+    default: ""
   is-release:
-    description: 'Is release build'
+    description: "Is release build"
     required: true
   generate-symbols:
-    description: 'Generate symbols'
+    description: "Generate symbols"
     required: true
   upload-to-storage:
-    description: 'Upload to storage'
+    description: "Upload to storage"
     required: true
   is-asan:
-    description: 'The ASan Linux build'
+    description: "The ASan Linux build"
     required: false
 runs:
   using: "composite"
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ runs:
       if: ${{ inputs.target-platform != 'win' }}
       shell: bash
       run: |
+        exit 1 # Only interested in testing windows builds
         rm -rf "src/out/Default/Electron Framework.framework"
         rm -rf src/out/Default/Electron*.app
 

patches/chromium/.patches

@@ -143,3 +143,4 @@ chore_disable_protocol_handler_dcheck.patch
 fix_check_for_file_existence_before_setting_mtime.patch
 fix_linux_tray_id.patch
 expose_gtk_ui_platform_field.patch
+debug_lld-link_verbose.patch

patches/chromium/debug_lld-link_verbose.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Calvin Watford <cwatford@makenotion.com>
+Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2026 14:39:56 -0800
+Subject: debug: lld-link /verbose
+
+
+diff --git a/build/config/win/BUILD.gn b/build/config/win/BUILD.gn
+index 4e4ab177d4f2168418d58219183c9857a7316eb9..b347af18c1f6da918ef335e182072d61fdd13b45 100644
+--- a/build/config/win/BUILD.gn
++++ b/build/config/win/BUILD.gn
+@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ config("compiler") {
+ 
+     # Don't look for libpaths in %LIB%, similar to /X in cflags above.
+     ldflags += [ "/lldignoreenv" ]
++    ldflags += [ "/verbose" ]  # CI-only: verbose lld-link output for debugging.
+   }
+ 
+   # Some binaries create PDBs larger than 4 GiB. Increasing the PDB page size