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Bootstrapping the LLVM C/C++ Front-End
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<li><a href="#cautionarynote">A Cautionary Note</a>
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<li><a href="#cygwin">Building under Cygwin</a></li>
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<li><a href="#instructions">Instructions</a></li>
<li><a href="#license">License Information</a></li>
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<p>Written by Brian R. Gaeke and
<a href="http://nondot.org/sabre">Chris Lattner</a></p>
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<a name="cautionarynote">A Cautionary Note</a>
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<p>This document is intended to explain the process of building the
LLVM C/C++ front-end, based on GCC 3.4, from its source code. You
would have to do this, for example, if you are porting LLVM to a new
architecture or operating system.</p>
<p><b>NOTE:</b> This is currently a somewhat fragile, error-prone
process, and you should <b>only</b> try to do it if:</p>
<ol>
<li>you really, really, really can't use the binaries we distribute</li>
<li>you need GCC to fix some of the header files on your system</li>
<li>you are an elite GCC hacker.</li>
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<p>We welcome patches to help make this process simpler.</p>
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<a name="cygwin">Building under Cygwin</a>
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<p>If you are building LLVM and the C front-end under Cygwin, please note that
the LLVM and GCC makefiles do not correctly handle spaces in paths. To deal
with this issue, make sure that your LLVM and GCC source and build trees are
located in a top-level directory (like <tt>/cygdrive/c/llvm</tt> and
<tt>/cygdrive/c/llvm-cfrontend</tt>), not in a directory that contains a space
(which includes your "home directory", because it lives under the "Documents
and Settings" directory). We welcome patches to fix this issue.
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<a name="instructions">Instructions</a>
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<li><p>Configure and build the LLVM libraries and tools using:</p>
<pre>
% cd llvm
% ./configure [options...]
% gmake tools-only
</pre>
<p>This will build all of the LLVM tools and libraries.</p></li>
<li><p>Add the directory containing the tools to your PATH.</p>
<pre>
% set path = ( `cd llvm/tools/Debug &amp;&amp; pwd` $path )
</pre></li>
<li><p>Unpack the C/C++ front-end source into cfrontend/src.</p></li>
<li><p>Make "build" and "install" directories as siblings of the "src" tree.</p>
<pre>
% pwd
/usr/local/example/cfrontend/src
% cd ..
% mkdir build install
% set CFEINSTALL = `pwd`/install
</pre></li>
<li><p>Configure, build, and install the C front-end:</p>
<p>
<b>Linux/x86:</b><br>
<b>MacOS X/PowerPC</b> (requires dlcompat library):<br>
<b>AIX/PowerPC:</b>
</p>
<pre>
% cd build
% ../src/configure --prefix=$CFEINSTALL --disable-threads --disable-nls \
--disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++
% gmake
% setenv LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH `pwd`/gcc
% gmake all; gmake install
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<p><b>Cygwin/x86:</b></p>
<pre>
% cd build
% ../src/configure --prefix=$CFEINSTALL --disable-threads --disable-nls \
--disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-c-mbchar
% gmake
% setenv LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH `pwd`/gcc
% gmake all; gmake install
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<p><b>Solaris/SPARC:</b></p>
<p>
For Solaris/SPARC, LLVM only supports the SPARC V9. Therefore, the
configure command line should specify sparcv9, as shown below. Also,
note that Solaris has trouble with various wide (multibyte) character
functions from C as referenced from C++, so we typically configure with
--disable-c-mbchar (cf. <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR206">Bug 206</a>).
</p>
<pre>
% cd build
% ../src/configure --prefix=$CFEINSTALL --disable-threads --disable-nls \
--disable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --host=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8 \
--disable-c-mbchar
% gmake
% setenv LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH `pwd`/gcc
% gmake all; gmake install
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<p><b>Common Problem:</b> You may get error messages regarding the fact
that LLVM does not support inline assembly. Here are two common
fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><b>Fix 1:</b> If you have system header files that include
inline assembly, you may have to modify them to remove the inline
assembly, and install the modified versions in
<code>$CFEINSTALL/<i>target-triplet</i>/sys-include</code>.</li>
<li><b>Fix 2:</b> If you are building the C++ front-end on a CPU we
haven't tried yet, you will probably have to edit the appropriate
version of atomicity.h under
<code>src/libstdc++-v3/config/cpu/<i>name-of-cpu</i>/atomicity.h</code>
and apply a patch so that it does not use inline assembly.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Porting to a new architecture:</b> If you are porting the new front-end
to a new architecture, or compiling in a different configuration that we have
previously, there are probably several changes you will have to make to the GCC
target to get it to work correctly. These include:<p>
<ul>
<li>Often targets include special or assembler linker flags which
<tt>gccas</tt>/<tt>gccld</tt> does not understand. In general, these can
just be removed.</li>
<li>LLVM currently does not support any floating point values other than
32-bit and 64-bit IEEE floating point. The primary effect of this is
that you may have to map "long double" onto "double".</li>
<li>The profiling hooks in GCC do not apply at all to the LLVM front-end.
These may need to be disabled.</li>
<li>No inline assembly for position independent code. At the LLVM level,
everything is position independent.</li>
<li>We handle <tt>.init</tt> and <tt>.fini</tt> differently.</li>
<li>You may have to disable multilib support in your target. Using multilib
support causes the GCC compiler driver to add a lot of "<tt>-L</tt>"
options to the link line, which do not relate to LLVM and confuse
<tt>gccld</tt>. To disable multilibs, delete any
<tt>MULTILIB_OPTIONS</tt> lines from your target files.</li>
<li>Did we mention that we don't support inline assembly? You'll probably
have to add some fixinclude hacks to disable it in the system
headers.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>Go back into the LLVM source tree proper. Rerun configure, using
the <code>--with-llvmgccdir=$CFEINSTALL</code> option to specify the path
to the newly built C front-end.</p></li>
<li><p>If you edited header files during the C/C++ front-end build as
described in "Fix 1" above, you must now copy those header files from
<code>$CFEINSTALL/<i>target-triplet</i>/sys-include</code> to
<code>$CFEINSTALL/lib/gcc/<i>target-triplet</i>/3.4-llvm/include</code>.
(This should be the "include" directory in the same directory as the
libgcc.a library, which you can find by running
<code>$CFEINSTALL/bin/gcc --print-libgcc-file-name</code>.)</p></li>
<li><p>Rebuild your CVS tree. This shouldn't cause the whole thing to be
rebuilt, but it should build the runtime libraries. After the tree is
built, install the runtime libraries into your C front-end build tree.
These are the commands you need.</p>
<pre>
% gmake
% mkdir $CFEINSTALL/bytecode-libs
% gmake -C runtime install-bytecode
% setenv LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH $CFEINSTALL/bytecode-libs
</pre></li>
<li><p>Test the newly-installed C frontend by one or more of the
following means:</p>
<ul>
<li> compiling and running a "hello, LLVM" program in C and C++.</li>
<li> running the tests under <tt>test/Programs</tt> using <code>gmake -C
test/Programs</code></li>
</ul></li>
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<a name="license">License Information</a>
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<p>
The LLVM GCC frontend is licensed to you under the GNU General Public License
and the GNU Lesser General Public License. Please see the files COPYING and
COPYING.LIB for more details.
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<p>
The software also has the following additional copyrights:
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Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
All rights reserved.
Developed by:
LLVM Team
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE
SOFTWARE.
Copyright (c) 1994
Hewlett-Packard Company
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software
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