Auto merge of #27208 - alexcrichton:msvc-less-dllimport, r=brson

Currently you can hit a link error on MSVC by only referencing static items from
a crate (no functions for example) and then link to the crate statically (as all
Rust crates do 99% of the time). A detailed investigation can be found [on
github][details], but the tl;dr is that we need to stop applying dllimport so
aggressively.

This commit alters the application of dllimport on constants to only cases where
the crate the constant originated from will be linked as a dylib in some output
crate type. That way if we're just linking rlibs (like the motivation for this
issue) we won't use dllimport. For the compiler, however, (which has lots of
dylibs) we'll use dllimport.

[details]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/26591#issuecomment-123513631

cc #26591

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/auxiliary/xcrate-static.rs b/src/test/auxiliary/xcrate-static.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..85093869ba2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/auxiliary/xcrate-static.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// Copyright 2015 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// no-prefer-dynamic
+
+#![crate_type = "rlib"]
+
+pub static FOO: u8 = 8;
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/xcrate-static.rs b/src/test/run-pass/xcrate-static.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d1f08e726bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/xcrate-static.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// Copyright 2015 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// aux-build:xcrate-static.rs
+
+extern crate xcrate_static;
+
+fn main() {
+    println!("{}", xcrate_static::FOO);
+}