[fmajid]

John R. Levine’s book Linkers and Loaders remains the only comprehensive coverage on the topic. You can get the manuscript proofs for free on the author’s website:

https://www.iecc.com/linker/

The Solaris Linkers and Libraries docs are very good and mostly relevant to Linux, with fewer distractions about Windows:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E36783/index.html

[rurban]

I would argue reading mold's source code is much easier and simplier to understand.

[KerrAvon]

Than Levine’s book? You would lose the argument.

[rurban]

nope, read both, mold was easier. even if I am a perl master.