From 750c665ab38e7a5ff59fc6206740f82bbfab5fda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Coplan <mchcopl@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:16:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] build(zig): keep all symbols for native Lua modules #41361

Native Lua modules loaded with `require` or `package.loadlib` resolve Lua
C API symbols from the nvim executable itself. Those symbols must stay in
the binary even when nothing inside nvim references them.

`rdynamic` is enough on Linux. On macOS the linker dead-strips
unreferenced symbols before rdynamic exports them, so `_lua_tothread` is
missing from the executable and loading such a module fails with:

    symbol not found in flat namespace '_lua_tothread'

Disable section garbage collection so all non-static symbols are kept.
---
 build.zig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/build.zig b/build.zig
index 3519786ec7..bcae54f001 100644
--- a/build.zig
+++ b/build.zig
@@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) !void {
         .root_module = nvim_mod,
     }) else b.addExecutable(.{ .name = "nvim", .root_module = nvim_mod });
     nvim_exe.rdynamic = true; // -E
+    nvim_exe.link_gc_sections = false; // prevent linker from gc:ing exported symbols #40622
     if (emscripten_libc_path) |lp| nvim_exe.setLibCFile(lp);
     if (is_wasm) nvim_exe.entry = .disabled;
     if (is_wasm) nvim_exe.linker_allow_shlib_undefined = true;