diff --git a/lld/CMakeLists.txt b/lld/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/lld/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lld/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -176,6 +176,13 @@
   add_definitions("-DLLD_DEFAULT_LD_LLD_IS_MINGW=1")
 endif()
 
+option(LLD_ENABLE_ELF_LINKER "Build the ELF linker" ON)
+option(LLD_ENABLE_COFF_LINKER "Build the COFF linker" ON)
+option(LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER "Build the Mach-O linker" ON)
+option(LLD_ENABLE_WASM_LINKER "Build the WASM linker" ON)
+configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include/lld/Common/config.h.cmake
+               ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/include/lld/Common/config.h)
+
 if (MSVC)
   add_definitions(-wd4530) # Suppress 'warning C4530: C++ exception handler used, but unwind semantics are not enabled.'
   add_definitions(-wd4062) # Suppress 'warning C4062: enumerator X in switch of enum Y is not handled' from system header.
@@ -195,7 +202,9 @@
 endif()
 
 add_subdirectory(Common)
-add_subdirectory(lib)
+if (LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER)
+  add_subdirectory(lib)
+endif()
 add_subdirectory(tools/lld)
 
 if (LLVM_INCLUDE_TESTS)
@@ -204,10 +213,18 @@
 endif()
 
 add_subdirectory(docs)
-add_subdirectory(COFF)
-add_subdirectory(ELF)
-add_subdirectory(MachO)
-add_subdirectory(MinGW)
-add_subdirectory(wasm)
+if (LLD_ENABLE_COFF_LINKER)
+  add_subdirectory(COFF)
+  add_subdirectory(MinGW)
+endif()
+if (LLD_ENABLE_ELF_LINKER)
+  add_subdirectory(ELF)
+endif()
+if (LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER)
+  add_subdirectory(MachO)
+endif()
+if (LLD_ENABLE_WASM_LINKER)
+  add_subdirectory(wasm)
+endif()
 
 add_subdirectory(cmake/modules)
diff --git a/lld/include/lld/Common/config.h.cmake b/lld/include/lld/Common/config.h.cmake
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/include/lld/Common/config.h.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#cmakedefine01 LLD_ENABLE_COFF_LINKER
+#cmakedefine01 LLD_ENABLE_ELF_LINKER
+#cmakedefine01 LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER
+#cmakedefine01 LLD_ENABLE_WASM_LINKER
diff --git a/lld/test/COFF/lit.local.cfg b/lld/test/COFF/lit.local.cfg
--- a/lld/test/COFF/lit.local.cfg
+++ b/lld/test/COFF/lit.local.cfg
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
+if 'lld-coff' not in config.available_features:
+  config.unsupported = True
+
 config.environment['LLD_IN_TEST'] = '2'
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/lit.local.cfg b/lld/test/ELF/lit.local.cfg
--- a/lld/test/ELF/lit.local.cfg
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/lit.local.cfg
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
+if 'lld-elf' not in config.available_features:
+  config.unsupported = True
+
 config.suffixes = ['.test', '.s', '.ll', '.bat']
diff --git a/lld/test/MachO/lit.local.cfg b/lld/test/MachO/lit.local.cfg
--- a/lld/test/MachO/lit.local.cfg
+++ b/lld/test/MachO/lit.local.cfg
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 import os
 
+if 'lld-macho' not in config.available_features:
+    config.unsupported = True
+
 # We specify the most commonly-used archs and platform versions in our tests
 # here. Tests which need different settings can just append to this, as only
 # the last value will be used.
diff --git a/lld/test/MinGW/lit.local.cfg b/lld/test/MinGW/lit.local.cfg
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/MinGW/lit.local.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+if 'lld-coff' not in config.available_features:
+  config.unsupported = True
diff --git a/lld/test/darwin/lit.local.cfg b/lld/test/darwin/lit.local.cfg
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/darwin/lit.local.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+if 'lld-macho' not in config.available_features:
+  config.unsupported = True
diff --git a/lld/test/lit.cfg.py b/lld/test/lit.cfg.py
--- a/lld/test/lit.cfg.py
+++ b/lld/test/lit.cfg.py
@@ -99,6 +99,15 @@
 if config.have_dia_sdk:
     config.available_features.add("diasdk")
 
+if config.have_lld_coff_linker:
+    config.available_features.add('lld-coff')
+if config.have_lld_elf_linker:
+    config.available_features.add('lld-elf')
+if config.have_lld_macho_linker:
+    config.available_features.add('lld-macho')
+if config.have_lld_wasm_linker:
+    config.available_features.add('lld-wasm')
+
 if config.sizeof_void_p == 8:
     config.available_features.add("llvm-64-bits")
 
diff --git a/lld/test/lit.site.cfg.py.in b/lld/test/lit.site.cfg.py.in
--- a/lld/test/lit.site.cfg.py.in
+++ b/lld/test/lit.site.cfg.py.in
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
 config.sizeof_void_p = @CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P@
 config.ld_lld_default_mingw = @LLD_DEFAULT_LD_LLD_IS_MINGW@
 
+config.have_lld_coff_linker = lit.util.pythonize_bool("@LLD_ENABLE_COFF_LINKER@")
+config.have_lld_elf_linker = lit.util.pythonize_bool("@LLD_ENABLE_ELF_LINKER@")
+config.have_lld_macho_linker = lit.util.pythonize_bool("@LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER@")
+config.have_lld_wasm_linker = lit.util.pythonize_bool("@LLD_ENABLE_WASM_LINKER@")
+
 # Support substitution of the tools and libs dirs with user parameters. This is
 # used when we can't determine the tool dir at configuration time.
 try:
diff --git a/lld/test/mach-o/lit.local.cfg b/lld/test/mach-o/lit.local.cfg
--- a/lld/test/mach-o/lit.local.cfg
+++ b/lld/test/mach-o/lit.local.cfg
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+if 'lld-macho' not in config.available_features:
+  config.unsupported = True
 
 # mach-o test cases encode input files in yaml and use .yaml extension
 config.suffixes = ['.yaml']
diff --git a/lld/test/wasm/lit.local.cfg b/lld/test/wasm/lit.local.cfg
--- a/lld/test/wasm/lit.local.cfg
+++ b/lld/test/wasm/lit.local.cfg
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-if 'wasm' not in config.available_features:
+if 'wasm' not in config.available_features or 'lld-wasm' not in config.available_features:
   config.unsupported = True
 
 config.suffixes = ['.test', '.yaml', '.ll', '.s']
diff --git a/lld/tools/lld/CMakeLists.txt b/lld/tools/lld/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/lld/tools/lld/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lld/tools/lld/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,20 +12,31 @@
 target_link_libraries(lld
   PRIVATE
   lldCommon
-  lldCOFF
-  lldDriver
-  lldELF
-  lldMachO
-  lldMinGW
-  lldWasm
   )
+set(LLD_DEFAULT_SYMLINKS)
+if (LLD_ENABLE_COFF_LINKER)
+  target_link_libraries(lld PRIVATE lldCOFF lldMinGW)
+  list(APPEND LLD_DEFAULT_SYMLINKS ld.lld lld-link)
+endif()
+if (LLD_ENABLE_ELF_LINKER)
+  target_link_libraries(lld PRIVATE lldELF)
+  list(APPEND LLD_DEFAULT_SYMLINKS ld.lld)
+endif()
+if (LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER)
+  target_link_libraries(lld PRIVATE lldDriver lldMachO)
+  list(APPEND LLD_DEFAULT_SYMLINKS ld64.lld ld64.lld.darwinnew ld64.lld.darwinold)
+endif()
+if (LLD_ENABLE_WASM_LINKER)
+  target_link_libraries(lld PRIVATE lldWasm)
+  list(APPEND LLD_DEFAULT_SYMLINKS wasm-ld)
+endif()
+list(REMOVE_DUPLICATES LLD_DEFAULT_SYMLINKS)
 
 install(TARGETS lld
   RUNTIME DESTINATION bin)
 
 if(NOT LLD_SYMLINKS_TO_CREATE)
-  set(LLD_SYMLINKS_TO_CREATE
-      lld-link ld.lld ld64.lld ld64.lld.darwinnew ld64.lld.darwinold wasm-ld)
+  set(LLD_SYMLINKS_TO_CREATE ${LLD_DEFAULT_SYMLINKS})
 endif()
 
 foreach(link ${LLD_SYMLINKS_TO_CREATE})
diff --git a/lld/tools/lld/lld.cpp b/lld/tools/lld/lld.cpp
--- a/lld/tools/lld/lld.cpp
+++ b/lld/tools/lld/lld.cpp
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
+#include "lld/Common/config.h"
+
 #include "lld/Common/Driver.h"
 #include "lld/Common/ErrorHandler.h"
 #include "lld/Common/Memory.h"
@@ -60,6 +62,11 @@
   exit(1);
 }
 
+[[noreturn]] LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED static void
+missingLinkerSupport(StringRef format) {
+  die(format + " support in lld was disabled. Please use a different linker");
+}
+
 static Flavor getFlavor(StringRef s) {
   return StringSwitch<Flavor>(s)
       .CasesLower("ld", "ld.lld", "gnu", Gnu)
@@ -144,17 +151,42 @@
   std::vector<const char *> args(argv, argv + argc);
   switch (parseFlavor(args)) {
   case Gnu:
-    if (isPETarget(args))
+    if (isPETarget(args)) {
+#if !LLD_ENABLE_COFF_LINKER
+      missingLinkerSupport("COFF");
+#else
       return !mingw::link(args, exitEarly, stdoutOS, stderrOS);
+#endif
+    }
+#if !LLD_ENABLE_ELF_LINKER
+    missingLinkerSupport("ELF");
+#else
     return !elf::link(args, exitEarly, stdoutOS, stderrOS);
+#endif
   case WinLink:
+#if !LLD_ENABLE_COFF_LINKER
+    missingLinkerSupport("COFF");
+#else
     return !coff::link(args, exitEarly, stdoutOS, stderrOS);
+#endif
   case Darwin:
+#if !LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER
+    missingLinkerSupport("Mach-O");
+#else
     return !macho::link(args, exitEarly, stdoutOS, stderrOS);
+#endif
   case DarwinOld:
+#if !LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER
+    missingLinkerSupport("Mach-O");
+#else
     return !mach_o::link(args, exitEarly, stdoutOS, stderrOS);
+#endif
   case Wasm:
+#if !LLD_ENABLE_WASM_LINKER
+    missingLinkerSupport("WASM");
+#else
     return !lld::wasm::link(args, exitEarly, stdoutOS, stderrOS);
+#endif
   default:
     die("lld is a generic driver.\n"
         "Invoke ld.lld (Unix), ld64.lld (macOS), lld-link (Windows), wasm-ld"
diff --git a/lld/unittests/CMakeLists.txt b/lld/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/lld/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lld/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,8 @@
   target_link_libraries(${test_dirname} ${LLVM_COMMON_LIBS})
 endfunction()
 
-add_subdirectory(DriverTests)
-add_subdirectory(MachOTests)
+# Currently, all unit tests depend on the old Mach-O linker
+if (LLD_ENABLE_MACHO_LINKER)
+  add_subdirectory(DriverTests)
+  add_subdirectory(MachOTests)
+endif()