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Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]8<div class="doc_title">Using The LLVM Libraries</div>
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]9<ol>
10 <li><a href="#abstract">Abstract</a></li>
11 <li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]12 <li><a href="#descriptions">Library Descriptions</a></li>
Reid Spencere0f33ae2004-12-30 23:12:04 +0000[diff] [blame]13 <li><a href="#dependencies">Library Dependencies</a></li>
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]14 <li><a href="#rot">Linkage Rules Of Thumb</a>
15 <ol>
Reid Spencer41482662004-10-31 23:24:31 +0000[diff] [blame]16 <li><a href="#always">Always link LLVMCore, LLVMSupport, LLVMSystem</a>
17 <li><a href="#onlyone">Never link both archive and re-linked</a>
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19 </li>
20</ol>
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22<div class="doc_author">
23 <p>Written by <a href="mailto:rspencer@x10sys.com">Reid Spencer</a></p>
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Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]26<!-- ======================================================================= -->
27<div class="doc_section"><a name="abstract">Abstract</a></div>
28<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]29 <p>Amongst other things, LLVM is a toolkit for building compilers, linkers,
30 runtime executives, virtual machines, and other program execution related
31 tools. In addition to the LLVM tool set, the functionality of LLVM is
32 available through a set of libraries. To use LLVM as a toolkit for
33 constructing tools, a developer needs to understand what is contained in the
34 various libraries, what they depend on, and how to use them. This document
35 describes the contents of the libraries and how and when to use them.
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37</div>
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]38
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]39<!-- ======================================================================= -->
40<div class="doc_section"> <a name="introduction">Introduction</a></div>
41<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]42 <p>If you're writing a compiler, virtual machine, or any other utility based
43 on LLVM, you'll need to figure out which of the many libraries files you will
44 need to link with to be successful. An understanding of the contents of these
45 files and their inter-relationships will be useful in coming up with an optimal
46 specification for the libraries to link with. The purpose of this document is
47 to reduce some of the trial and error that the author experienced in using
48 LLVM.</p>
49 <p>LLVM produces two types of libraries: archives (ending in <tt>.a</tt>) and
50 objects (ending in <tt>.o</tt>). However, both are libraries. Libraries ending
51 in <tt>.o</tt> are known as re-linked libraries because they contain all the
52 compilation units of the library linked together as a single <tt>.o</tt> file.
53 Furthermore, many of the libraries have <em>both</em> forms of library. The
54 re-linked libraries are used whenever you want to include all symbols from the
55 library. The archive libraries are used whenever you want to only resolve
56 outstanding symbols at that point in the link without including everything in
57 the library. </p>
58 <p>When linking your tools, you will use the <tt>LLVMLIBS</tt> make variable.
59 (see the <a href="MakefileGuide.html#LLVMLIBS">Makefile Guide</a> for
60 details). This variable specifies which LLVM libraries to link into your tool
61 and the order in which they will be linked. You specify re-linked libraries by
62 naming the library without a suffix. You specify archive libraries by naming
63 the library with a <tt>.a</tt> suffix but without the <tt>lib</tt> prefix. The
64 order in which the libraries appear in the <tt>LLVMLIBS</tt> variable
65 definition is the order in which they will be linked. Getting this order
66 correct for your tool can sometimes be challenging.
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68<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]69<div class="doc_section"><a name="descriptions"></a>Library Descriptions</div>
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]70<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]71 <p>The table below categorizes each library
72<table style="text-align:left">
73 <tr><th>Library</th><th>Forms</th><th>Description</th></tr>
Reid Spencer0a4e8b32004-11-01 09:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]74 <tr><th colspan="3">Core Libraries</th></tr>
Reid Spencer41482662004-10-31 23:24:31 +0000[diff] [blame]75 <tr><td>LLVMAsmParser</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
76 <td>LLVM Assembly Parsing</td></tr>
77 <tr><td>LLVMBCReader</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
78 <td>LLVM Bytecode Reading</td></tr>
79 <tr><td>LLVMBCWriter</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
80 <td>LLVM Bytecode Writing</td></tr>
81 <tr><td>LLVMDebugger</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
82 <td>Source Level Debugging Support</td></tr>
83 <tr><td>LLVMSupport</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
84 <td>General support utilities</td></tr>
85 <tr><td>LLVMSystem</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
86 <td>Operating system abstraction</td></tr>
87 <tr><td>LLVMCore</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
88 <td>LLVM Core IR</td></tr>
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]89
Reid Spencer0a4e8b32004-11-01 09:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]90 <tr><th colspan="3">Analysis Libraries</th></tr>
Reid Spencer41482662004-10-31 23:24:31 +0000[diff] [blame]91 <tr><td>LLVMAnalysis</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
92 <td>Various analysis passes.</td></tr>
93 <tr><td>LLVMDataStructure</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
94 <td>Data structure analysis passes.</td></tr>
95 <tr><td>LLVMipa</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
96 <td>Inter-procedural analysis passes.</td></tr>
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]97
Reid Spencer0a4e8b32004-11-01 09:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]98 <tr><th colspan="3">Transformation Libraries</th></tr>
Reid Spencer41482662004-10-31 23:24:31 +0000[diff] [blame]99 <tr><td>LLVMInstrumentation</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
100 <td>Instrumentation passes.</td></tr>
101 <tr><td>LLVMipo</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
102 <td>All inter-procedural optimization passes.</td></tr>
103 <tr><td>LLVMScalarOpts</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
104 <td>All scalar optimization passes.</td></tr>
105 <tr><td>LLVMTransforms</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
106 <td>Uncategorized transformation passes.</td></tr>
107 <tr><td>LLVMTransformUtils</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
108 <td>Transformation utilities.</td></tr>
109 <tr><td>LLVMProfilePaths</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
110 <td>Profile paths for instrumentation.</td></tr>
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]111
Reid Spencer0a4e8b32004-11-01 09:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]112 <tr><th colspan="3">Code Generation Libraries </th></tr>
Reid Spencer41482662004-10-31 23:24:31 +0000[diff] [blame]113 <tr><td>LLVMCodeGen</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
114 <td>Native code generation infrastructure</td></tr>
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]115
Reid Spencer0a4e8b32004-11-01 09:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]116 <tr><th colspan="3">Target Libraries</th></tr>
Reid Spencer41482662004-10-31 23:24:31 +0000[diff] [blame]117 <tr><td>LLVMCBackend</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
118 <td>'C' language code generator.</td></tr>
119 <tr><td>LLVMPowerPC</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
120 <td>PowerPC code generation backend</td></tr>
121 <tr><td>LLVMSelectionDAG</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
122 <td>Aggressive instruction selector for Directed Acyclic Graphs.</td></tr>
123 <tr><td>LLVMSkeleton</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
124 <td>Skeleton for a code generation backend.</td></tr>
125 <tr><td>LLVMSparcV9</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
126 <td>Code generation for SparcV9.</td></tr>
127 <tr><td>LLVMSparcV9RegAlloc</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
128 <td>Graph-coloring register allocator for SparcV9.</td></tr>
129 <tr><td>LLVMSparcV9InstrSched</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
130 <td>Instruction scheduling for SparcV9.</td></tr>
131 <tr><td>LLVMSparcV9LiveVar</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
132 <td>Live variable analysis SparcV9.</td></tr>
133 <tr><td>LLVMSparcV9ModuloSched</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
134 <td>Modulo scheduling for SparcV9.</td></tr>
135 <tr><td>LLVMTarget</td><td><tt>.a .o</tt></td>
136 <td>Generic code generation utilities.</td></tr>
137 <tr><td>LLVMX86</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
138 <td>Intel x86 code generation backend</td></tr>
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]139
Reid Spencer0a4e8b32004-11-01 09:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]140 <tr><th colspan="3">Runtime Libraries</th></tr>
Reid Spencer41482662004-10-31 23:24:31 +0000[diff] [blame]141 <tr><td>LLVMInterpreter</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
142 <td>Bytecode Interpreter</td></tr>
143 <tr><td>LLVMJIT</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
144 <td>Bytecode JIT Compiler</td></tr>
145 <tr><td>LLVMExecutionEngine</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
146 <td>Virtual machine engine</td></tr>
147 <tr><td>LLVMexecve</td><td><tt>.o</tt></td>
148 <td>execve(2) replacement for llee</td></tr>
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]149</table>
150</div>
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]151
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]152<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencere0f33ae2004-12-30 23:12:04 +0000[diff] [blame]153<div class="doc_section"><a name="dependencies"></a>Library Dependencies</div>
154<div class="doc_text">
155 <p>The following list shows the dependency relationships between libraries.
156 This information can be automatically generated with the
157 <tt>GenLibDeps.pl</tt> utility in the <tt>llvm/utils</tt> directory.</p>
158 <!-- =======NOTE: =========================================================-->
159 <!-- === The following <dl> list is generated automatically by the util ===-->
160 <!-- === named GenLibDeps.pl in the llvm/utils directory. This should ===-->
161 <!-- === updated whenever new libraries are added, removed, or changed ===-->
162 <!-- =======NOTE: =========================================================-->
163<dl>
164 <dt><b>libLLVMAnalysis.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
165 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
166 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
167 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
168 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
169 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
170 </ul></dd>
171 <dt><b>libLLVMArchive.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
172 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
173 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
174 <li>LLVMBCReader.o</li>
175 </ul></dd>
176 <dt><b>libLLVMDataStructure.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
177 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
178 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
179 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
180 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
181 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
182 </ul></dd>
183 <dt><b>libLLVMInstrumentation.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
184 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
185 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
186 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
187 </ul></dd>
188 <dt><b>libLLVMLinker.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
189 <li>libLLVMArchive.a</li>
190 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
191 <li>LLVMBCReader.o</li>
192 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
193 </ul></dd>
194 <dt><b>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
195 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
196 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
197 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
198 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
199 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
200 </ul></dd>
201 <dt><b>libLLVMSparcV9RegAlloc.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
202 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
203 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
204 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
205 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
206 <li>LLVMSparcV9LiveVar.o</li>
207 <li>LLVMSparcV9.o</li>
208 </ul></dd>
209 <dt><b>libLLVMSupport.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
210 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
211 <li>LLVMbzip2.o</li>
212 </ul></dd>
213 <dt><b>libLLVMSystem.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
214 </ul></dd>
215 <dt><b>libLLVMTarget.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
216 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
217 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
218 </ul></dd>
219 <dt><b>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
220 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
221 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
222 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
223 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
224 </ul></dd>
225 <dt><b>libLLVMTransforms.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
226 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
227 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
228 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
229 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
230 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
231 </ul></dd>
232 <dt><b>libLLVMipa.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
233 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
234 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
235 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
236 </ul></dd>
237 <dt><b>libLLVMipo.a</b</dt><dd><ul>
238 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
239 <li>libLLVMipa.a</li>
240 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
241 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
242 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
243 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
244 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
245 </ul></dd>
246 <dt><b>LLVMAnalysis.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
247 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
248 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
249 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
250 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
251 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
252 </ul></dd>
253 <dt><b>LLVMAsmParser.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
254 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
255 </ul></dd>
256 <dt><b>LLVMBCReader.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
257 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
258 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
259 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
260 </ul></dd>
261 <dt><b>LLVMBCWriter.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
262 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
263 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
264 </ul></dd>
265 <dt><b>LLVMCBackend.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
266 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
267 <li>libLLVMipa.a</li>
268 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
269 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
270 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
271 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
272 </ul></dd>
273 <dt><b>LLVMCodeGen.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
274 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
275 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
276 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
277 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
278 </ul></dd>
279 <dt><b>LLVMCore.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
280 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
281 </ul></dd>
282 <dt><b>LLVMDataStructure.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
283 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
284 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
285 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
286 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
287 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
288 </ul></dd>
289 <dt><b>LLVMDebugger.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
290 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
291 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
292 <li>LLVMBCReader.o</li>
293 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
294 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
295 <li>LLVMExecutionEngine.o</li>
296 </ul></dd>
297 <dt><b>LLVMExecutionEngine.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
298 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
299 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
300 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
301 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
302 <li>LLVMInterpreter.o</li>
303 <li>LLVMJIT.o</li>
304 </ul></dd>
305 <dt><b>LLVMInstrumentation.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
306 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
307 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
308 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
309 </ul></dd>
310 <dt><b>LLVMInterpreter.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
311 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
312 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
313 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
314 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
315 <li>LLVMExecutionEngine.o</li>
316 </ul></dd>
317 <dt><b>LLVMJIT.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
318 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
319 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
320 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
321 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
322 <li>LLVMExecutionEngine.o</li>
323 </ul></dd>
324 <dt><b>LLVMPowerPC.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
325 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
326 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
327 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
328 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
329 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
330 </ul></dd>
331 <dt><b>LLVMProfilePaths.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
332 <li>libLLVMInstrumentation.a</li>
333 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
334 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
335 </ul></dd>
336 <dt><b>LLVMScalarOpts.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
337 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
338 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
339 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
340 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
341 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
342 </ul></dd>
343 <dt><b>LLVMSelectionDAG.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
344 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
345 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
346 </ul></dd>
347 <dt><b>LLVMSkeleton.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
348 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
349 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
350 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
351 </ul></dd>
352 <dt><b>LLVMSparcV8.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
353 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
354 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
355 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
356 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
357 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
358 </ul></dd>
359 <dt><b>LLVMSparcV9.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
360 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
361 <li>libLLVMSparcV9RegAlloc.a</li>
362 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
363 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
364 <li>LLVMBCWriter.o</li>
365 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
366 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
367 <li>LLVMSparcV9InstrSched.o</li>
368 <li>LLVMSparcV9ModuloSched.o</li>
369 </ul></dd>
370 <dt><b>LLVMSparcV9InstrSched.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
371 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
372 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
373 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
374 <li>LLVMSparcV9LiveVar.o</li>
375 <li>LLVMSparcV9.o</li>
376 </ul></dd>
377 <dt><b>LLVMSparcV9LiveVar.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
378 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
379 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
380 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
381 </ul></dd>
382 <dt><b>LLVMSparcV9ModuloSched.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
383 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
384 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
385 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
386 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
387 <li>LLVMSparcV9.o</li>
388 </ul></dd>
389 <dt><b>LLVMSparcV9RegAlloc.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
390 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
391 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
392 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
393 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
394 <li>LLVMSparcV9LiveVar.o</li>
395 <li>LLVMSparcV9.o</li>
396 </ul></dd>
397 <dt><b>LLVMSupport.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
398 <li>libLLVMSystem.a</li>
399 <li>LLVMbzip2.o</li>
400 </ul></dd>
401 <dt><b>LLVMSystem.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
402 </ul></dd>
403 <dt><b>LLVMTarget.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
404 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
405 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
406 </ul></dd>
407 <dt><b>LLVMTransformUtils.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
408 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
409 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
410 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
411 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
412 </ul></dd>
413 <dt><b>LLVMTransforms.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
414 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
415 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
416 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
417 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
418 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
419 </ul></dd>
420 <dt><b>LLVMX86.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
421 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
422 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
423 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
424 <li>LLVMCodeGen.o</li>
425 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
426 </ul></dd>
427 <dt><b>LLVMbzip2.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
428 </ul></dd>
429 <dt><b>LLVMipa.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
430 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
431 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
432 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
433 </ul></dd>
434 <dt><b>LLVMipo.o</b</dt><dd><ul>
435 <li>libLLVMAnalysis.a</li>
436 <li>libLLVMipa.a</li>
437 <li>libLLVMScalarOpts.a</li>
438 <li>libLLVMSupport.a</li>
439 <li>libLLVMTarget.a</li>
440 <li>libLLVMTransformUtils.a</li>
441 <li>LLVMCore.o</li>
442 </ul></dd>
443</dl>
444</div>
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Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]447<div class="doc_section"><a name="rot">Linkage Rules Of Thumb</a></div>
448<div class="doc_text">
449 <p>This section contains various "rules of thumb" about what files you
450 should link into your programs.</p>
451</div>
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Misha Brukman6fb51662004-11-08 00:22:22 +0000[diff] [blame]453<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="always">Always Link LLVMCore, LLVMSupport,
454 and LLVMSystem</a></div>
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]455<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer52afa7e2004-11-08 00:26:32 +0000[diff] [blame]456 <p>No matter what you do with LLVM, the last three entries in the value of
457 your LLVMLIBS make variable should always be:
458 <tt>LLVMCore LLVMSupport.a LLVMSystem.a</tt>. There are no <tt>LLVM</tt>
459 programs that don't depend on these three.</p>
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]460</div>
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Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]462<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="onlyone">Never link both archive and
463 re-linked library</a></div>
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]464<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]465 <p>There is never any point to linking both the re-linked (<tt>.o</tt>) and
466 the archive (<tt>.a</tt>) versions of a library. Since the re-linked version
467 includes the entire library, the archive version will not resolve any symbols.
Reid Spencer347e2882004-11-08 00:24:43 +0000[diff] [blame]468 You could even end up with link error if you place the archive version before
Reid Spencer341d7142004-10-31 23:00:25 +0000[diff] [blame]469 the re-linked version on the linker's command line.</p>
Chris Lattner61757352004-02-27 06:28:34 +0000[diff] [blame]470</div>
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