main: parse extldflags early so we can report the error message

This avoids some weird behavior when the -extldflags flag cannot be
parsed by TinyGo.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 254e140cf..8ae5ce316 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -1641,12 +1641,19 @@ func main() {
 		Timeout:         *timeout,
 		WITPackage:      witPackage,
 		WITWorld:        witWorld,
-		ExtLDFlags:      extLDFlags,
 	}
 	if *printCommands {
 		options.PrintCommands = printCommand
 	}
 
+	if extLDFlags != "" {
+		options.ExtLDFlags, err = shlex.Split(extLDFlags)
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "could not parse -extldflags:", err)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+	}
+
 	err = options.Verify()
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err.Error())