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12 Getting Started with the LLVM System
13</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]14
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]15<ul>
16 <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a>
17 <li><a href="#quickstart">Getting Started Quickly (A Summary)</a>
18 <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a>
Chris Lattner96768ea2003-02-14 04:22:13 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <ol>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]20 <li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a>
21 <li><a href="#software">Software</a>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]22 <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]23 </ol></li>
John Criswell7a73b802003-06-30 21:59:07 +0000[diff] [blame]24
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]25 <li><a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]26 <ol>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]27 <li><a href="#terminology">Terminology and Notation</a>
28 <li><a href="#environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a>
29 <li><a href="#unpack">Unpacking the LLVM Archives</a>
30 <li><a href="#checkout">Checkout LLVM from CVS</a>
31 <li><a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a>
32 <li><a href="#config">Local LLVM Configuration</a>
33 <li><a href="#compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a>
34 <li><a href="#objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a>
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]35 <li><a href="#optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]36 </ol></li>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]37
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]38 <li><a href="#layout">Program layout</a>
39 <ol>
40 <li><a href="#cvsdir"><tt>CVS</tt> directories</a>
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]41 <li><a href="#examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]42 <li><a href="#include"><tt>llvm/include</tt></a>
43 <li><a href="#lib"><tt>llvm/lib</tt></a>
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]44 <li><a href="#projects"><tt>llvm/projects</tt></a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]45 <li><a href="#runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a>
46 <li><a href="#test"><tt>llvm/test</tt></a>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]47 <li><a href="#llvmtest"><tt>llvm-test</tt></a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]48 <li><a href="#tools"><tt>llvm/tools</tt></a>
49 <li><a href="#utils"><tt>llvm/utils</tt></a>
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]50 <li><a href="#win32"><tt>llvm/win32</tt></a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]51 </ol></li>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]52
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]53 <li><a href="#tutorial">An Example Using the LLVM Tool Chain</a>
54 <li><a href="#problems">Common Problems</a>
55 <li><a href="#links">Links</a>
56</ul>
57
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]58<div class="doc_author">
59 <p>Written by:
60 <a href="mailto:criswell@uiuc.edu">John Criswell</a>,
61 <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a>,
62 <a href="http://misha.brukman.net">Misha Brukman</a>,
63 <a href="http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve">Vikram Adve</a>, and
64 <a href="mailto:gshi1@uiuc.edu">Guochun Shi</a>.
65 </p>
66</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]67
68
69<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
70<div class="doc_section">
71 <a name="overview"><b>Overview</b></a>
72</div>
73<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
74
75<div class="doc_text">
76
77<p>Welcome to LLVM! In order to get started, you first need to know some
78basic information.</p>
79
80<p>First, LLVM comes in two pieces. The first piece is the LLVM suite. This
81contains all of the tools, libraries, and header files needed to use the low
82level virtual machine. It contains an assembler, disassembler, bytecode
83analyzer, and bytecode optimizer. It also contains a test suite that can be
84used to test the LLVM tools and the GCC front end.</p>
85
86<p>The second piece is the GCC front end. This component provides a version of
87GCC that compiles C and C++ code into LLVM bytecode. Currently, the GCC front
88end is a modified version of GCC 3.4 (we track the GCC 3.4 development). Once
89compiled into LLVM bytecode, a program can be manipulated with the LLVM tools
90from the LLVM suite.</p>
91
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]92<p>
93There is a third, optional piece called llvm-test. It is a suite of programs
94with a testing harness that can be used to further test LLVM's functionality
95and performance.
96</p>
97
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]98</div>
99
100<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
101<div class="doc_section">
102 <a name="quickstart"><b>Getting Started Quickly (A Summary)</b></a>
103</div>
104<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
105
106<div class="doc_text">
107
108<p>Here's the short story for getting up and running quickly with LLVM:</p>
109
110<ol>
Reid Spencer9f547912004-11-08 00:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]111 <li>Read the documentation.</li>
112 <li>Read the documentation.</li>
113 <li>Remember that you were warned twice about reading the documentation.</li>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]114 <li>Install the GCC front end if you intend to compile C or C++:
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]115 <ol>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]116 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-C-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]117 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout cfrontend.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]118 </li>
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]119 <li><tt>cd cfrontend/<i>platform</i><br>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]120 ./fixheaders</tt></li>
121 <li>Add the cfrontend's "bin" directory to your PATH variable</li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]122 </ol></li>
123
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]124 <li>Get the LLVM Source Code
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]125 <ul>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]126 <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">CVS</a>):
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]127 <ol>
128 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
John Criswell364cec42004-03-12 20:31:37 +0000[diff] [blame]129 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-<i>version</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]130 </ol></li>
131
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]132 </ul></li>
133
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]134 <li><b>[Optional]</b> Get the Test Suite Source Code
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]135 <ul>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]136 <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">CVS</a>):
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]137 <ol>
138 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
139 <li><tt>cd llvm/projects</tt>
140 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-test-<i>version</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]141 </ol></li>
142
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]143 </ul></li>
144
145
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]146 <li>Configure the LLVM Build Environment
147 <ol>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]148 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-to-build-llvm</i></tt></li>
149 <li><tt><i>/path/to/llvm/</i>configure [options]</tt><br>
150 Some common options:
151
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]152 <ul>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]153 <li><tt>--prefix=<i>directory</i></tt>
154 <p>Specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of where you
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]155 want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed (default
156 <tt>/usr/local</tt>).</p></li>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]157 <li><tt>--with-llvmgccdir=<i>directory</i></tt>
158 <p>Optionally, specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of the
159 C/C++ FrontEnd installation to use with this LLVM configuration. If
160 not specified, the PATH will be searched.</p></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]161 <li><tt>--enable-spec2000=<i>directory</i></tt>
162 <p>Enable the SPEC2000 benchmarks for testing. The SPEC2000
163 benchmarks should be available in
164 <tt><i>directory</i></tt>.</p></li>
165 </ul>
166 </ol></li>
167
168 <li>Build the LLVM Suite:
169 <ol>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]170 <li><tt>gmake -k |&amp; tee gnumake.out
171 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# this is csh or tcsh syntax</tt></li>
172 <li>If you get an "internal compiler error (ICE)" see <a href="#brokengcc">below</a>.</li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]173 </ol>
174
175</ol>
176
Chris Lattnerfcd37252004-06-21 22:52:48 +0000[diff] [blame]177<p>Consult the <a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a> section for
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]178detailed information on configuring and compiling LLVM. See <a
179href="#environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a> for tips that simplify
180working with the GCC front end and LLVM tools. Go to <a href="#layout">Program
181Layout</a> to learn about the layout of the source code tree.</p>
182
183</div>
184
185<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
186<div class="doc_section">
187 <a name="requirements"><b>Requirements</b></a>
188</div>
189<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
190
191<div class="doc_text">
192
193<p>Before you begin to use the LLVM system, review the requirements given below.
194This may save you some trouble by knowing ahead of time what hardware and
195software you will need.</p>
196
197</div>
198
199<!-- ======================================================================= -->
200<div class="doc_subsection">
201 <a name="hardware"><b>Hardware</b></a>
202</div>
203
204<div class="doc_text">
205
206<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
207
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]208<table cellpadding="3">
209<tr>
210 <th>OS</th>
211 <th>Arch</th>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]212 <th>Compilers</th>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]213</tr>
214<tr>
215 <td>Linux</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]216 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]217 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]218</tr>
219<tr>
220 <td>Solaris</td>
221 <td>V9 (Ultrasparc)</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]222 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]223</tr>
224<tr>
225 <td>FreeBSD</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]226 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]227 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]228</tr>
229<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]230 <td>MacOS X<sup><a href="#pf_2">2</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]231 <td>PowerPC</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]232 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]233</tr>
234<tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]235 <td>Cygwin/Win32</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]236 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer65e8f5b2004-12-23 19:39:54 +0000[diff] [blame]237 <td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]238</tr>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]239<tr>
Chris Lattner8ccb87f2005-02-09 20:43:48 +0000[diff] [blame]240 <td>MinGW/Win32</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]241 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a></sup></td>
Chris Lattner8ccb87f2005-02-09 20:43:48 +0000[diff] [blame]242 <td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
243</tr>
244<tr>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]245 <td>Linux</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]246 <td>amd64<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]247 <td>GCC</td>
248</tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]249</table>
250
251<p>LLVM has partial support for the following platforms:</p>
252
253<table>
254<tr>
255 <th>OS</th>
256 <th>Arch</th>
257 <th>Compilers</th>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]258</tr>
Misha Brukman00117692004-11-15 21:05:08 +0000[diff] [blame]259<tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]260 <td>Windows</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]261 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
262 <td>Visual Studio .NET<sup><a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]263<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]264 <td>AIX<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_4">4</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman00117692004-11-15 21:05:08 +0000[diff] [blame]265 <td>PowerPC</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]266 <td>GCC</td>
267</tr>
268<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]269 <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]270 <td>PowerPC</td>
271 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman00117692004-11-15 21:05:08 +0000[diff] [blame]272</tr>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]273</table>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]274
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]275<p><b>Notes:</b></p>
276
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]277<div class="doc_notes">
278<ol>
279<li><a name="pf_1">Code generation supported for Pentium processors and
280up</a></li>
281<li><a name="pf_2">Code generation supported for 32-bit ABI only</a></li>
282<li><a name="pf_3">No native code generation</a></li>
283<li><a name="pf_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools don't link</a></li>
284<li><a name="pf_5">The GCC-based C/C++ frontend does not build</a></li>
285<li><a name="pf_6">The port is done using the MSYS shell.
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]286<a href="http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/">Download</a> and install
287bison (excl. M4.exe) and flex in that order. Build binutils-2.15 from source,
Chris Lattner27ae0272005-02-09 22:52:46 +0000[diff] [blame]288if necessary.</li>
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]289</ol>
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]290</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]291
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]292<p>Note that you will need about 1-3 GB of space for a full LLVM build in Debug
293mode, depending on the system (because of all the debug info), and the libraries
294appear in more than one of the tools that get linked, so there is some
295duplication. If you do not need many of the tools and you are space-conscious,
296you can disable them individually in <tt>llvm/tools/Makefile</tt>. The Release
297build requires considerably less space.</p>
298
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]299<p>The LLVM suite <i>may</i> compile on other platforms, but it is not
300guaranteed to do so. If compilation is successful, the LLVM utilities should be
301able to assemble, disassemble, analyze, and optimize LLVM bytecode. Code
302generation should work as well, although the generated native code may not work
303on your platform.</p>
304
305<p>The GCC front end is not very portable at the moment. If you want to get it
Misha Brukman22e9e332004-08-09 19:57:01 +0000[diff] [blame]306to work on another platform, you can download a copy of the source and <a
307href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">try to compile it</a> on your platform.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]308
309</div>
310
311<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]312<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]313<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]314 <p>Compiling LLVM requires that you have several software packages
315 installed. The table below lists those required packages. The Package column
316 is the usual name for the software package that LLVM depends on. The Version
317 column provides "known to work" versions of the package. The Notes column
318 describes how LLVM uses the package and provides other details.</p>
319 <table>
320 <tr><th>Package</th><th>Version</th><th>Notes</th></tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]321
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]322 <tr>
323 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make">GNU Make</a></td>
324 <td>3.79, 3.79.1</td>
325 <td>Makefile/build processor</td>
326 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]327
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]328 <tr>
329 <td><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">GCC</a></td>
330 <td>3.4.2</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]331 <td>C/C++ compiler<sup><a href="#sf1">1</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]332 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]333
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]334 <tr>
335 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/flex">Flex</a></td>
336 <td>2.5.4</td>
337 <td>LEX compiler</td>
338 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]339
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]340 <tr>
341 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html">Bison</a></td>
342 <td>1.35</td>
343 <td>YACC compiler</td>
344 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]345
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]346 <tr>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]347 <td><a href="https://www.cvshome.org/downloads.html">CVS</a></td>
348 <td>&ge;1.11</td>
349 <td>CVS access to LLVM<sup><a href="#sf2">2</a></sup></td>
350 </tr>
351
352 <tr>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]353 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/dejagnu">DejaGnu</a></td>
354 <td>1.4.2</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]355 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]356 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]357
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]358 <tr>
359 <td><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/">tcl</a></td>
360 <td>8.3, 8.4</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]361 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]362 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]363
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]364 <tr>
365 <td><a href="http://expect.nist.gov/">expect</a></td>
366 <td>5.38.0</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]367 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]368 </tr>
369
370 <tr>
371 <td><a href="http://www.perl.com/download.csp">perl</a></td>
Reid Spencer200d93b2004-12-09 17:55:37 +0000[diff] [blame]372 <td>&ge;5.6.0</td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]373 <td>Nightly tester, utilities</td>
374 </tr>
375
376 <tr>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]377 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/m4">GNU M4</a>
378 <td>1.4</td>
379 <td>Macro processor for configuration<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]380 </tr>
381
382 <tr>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]383 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf">GNU Autoconf</a></td>
384 <td>2.59</td>
385 <td>Configuration script builder<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
386 </tr>
387
388 <tr>
389 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake">GNU Automake</a></td>
390 <td>1.9.2</td>
391 <td>aclocal macro generator<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
392 </tr>
393
394 <tr>
395 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libtool">libtool</a></td>
396 <td>1.5.10</td>
397 <td>Shared library manager<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]398 </tr>
399
400 </table>
401
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]402 <p><b>Notes:</b></p>
403 <div class="doc_notes">
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]404 <ol>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]405 <li><a name="sf3">Only the C and C++ languages are needed so there's no
406 need to build the other languages for LLVM's purposes.</a> See
407 <a href="#brokengcc">below</a> for specific version info.</li>
408 <li><a name="sf2">You only need CVS if you intend to build from the
409 latest LLVM sources. If you're working from a release distribution, you
410 don't need CVS.</a></li>
411 <li><a name="sf3">Only needed if you want to run the automated test
412 suite in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.</a></li>
413 <li><a name="sf4">If you want to make changes to the configure scripts,
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]414 you will need GNU autoconf (2.59), and consequently, GNU M4 (version 1.4
Reid Spencer200d93b2004-12-09 17:55:37 +0000[diff] [blame]415 or higher). You will also need automake (1.9.2). We only use aclocal
416 from that package.</a></li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]417 </ol>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]418 </div>
419
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]420 <p>Additionally, your compilation host is expected to have the usual
421 plethora of Unix utilities. Specifically:</p>
422 <ul>
423 <li><b>ar</b> - archive library builder</li>
424 <li><b>bzip2*</b> - bzip2 command for distribution generation</li>
425 <li><b>bunzip2*</b> - bunzip2 command for distribution checking</li>
426 <li><b>chmod</b> - change permissions on a file</li>
John Criswellc4ef3f22004-12-08 16:55:27 +0000[diff] [blame]427 <li><b>cat</b> - output concatenation utility</li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]428 <li><b>cp</b> - copy files</li>
429 <li><b>date</b> - print the current date/time </li>
430 <li><b>echo</b> - print to standard output</li>
431 <li><b>egrep</b> - extended regular expression search utility</li>
432 <li><b>etags</b> - C/C++ tag file creator for vim/emacs</li>
433 <li><b>find</b> - find files/dirs in a file system</li>
434 <li><b>grep</b> - regular expression search utility</li>
435 <li><b>gzip*</b> - gzip command for distribution generation</li>
436 <li><b>gunzip*</b> - gunzip command for distribution checking</li>
437 <li><b>install</b> - install directories/files </li>
438 <li><b>mkdir</b> - create a directory</li>
439 <li><b>mv</b> - move (rename) files</li>
440 <li><b>ranlib</b> - symbol table builder for archive libraries</li>
Misha Brukman616bd052004-11-20 01:27:40 +0000[diff] [blame]441 <li><b>rm</b> - remove (delete) files and directories</li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]442 <li><b>sed</b> - stream editor for transforming output</li>
443 <li><b>sh</b> - Bourne shell for make build scripts</li>
444 <li><b>tar</b> - tape archive for distribution generation</li>
445 <li><b>test</b> - test things in file system</li>
446 <li><b>unzip*</b> - unzip command for distribution checking</li>
447 <li><b>zip*</b> - zip command for distribution generation</li>
448 </ul>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]449</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]450
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]451<!-- ======================================================================= -->
452<div class="doc_subsection">
453 <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
454</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]455
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]456<div class="doc_text">
457
458<p>LLVM is very demanding of the host C++ compiler, and as such tends to expose
459bugs in the compiler. In particular, several versions of GCC crash when trying
460to compile LLVM. We routinely use GCC 3.3.3 and GCC 3.4.0 and have had success
Chris Lattner8e64f152005-02-13 22:20:49 +0000[diff] [blame]461with them (however, see below). Other versions of GCC will probably
Chris Lattner25e7b162005-02-12 20:11:13 +0000[diff] [blame]462work as well. GCC versions listed
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]463here are known to not work. If you are using one of these versions, please try
464to upgrade your GCC to something more recent. If you run into a problem with a
465version of GCC not listed here, please <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu">let
466us know</a>. Please use the "<tt>gcc -v</tt>" command to find out which version
467of GCC you are using.
468</p>
469
470<p><b>GCC versions prior to 3.0</b>: GCC 2.96.x and before had several
471problems in the STL that effectively prevent it from compiling LLVM.
472</p>
473
John Criswell294ba022004-11-23 22:06:24 +0000[diff] [blame]474<p><b>GCC 3.2.2</b>: This version of GCC fails to compile LLVM.</p>
475
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]476<p><b>GCC 3.3.2</b>: This version of GCC suffered from a <a
477href="http://gcc.gnu.org/PR13392">serious bug</a> which causes it to crash in
478the "<tt>convert_from_eh_region_ranges_1</tt>" GCC function.</p>
Chris Lattner25e7b162005-02-12 20:11:13 +0000[diff] [blame]479
Chris Lattner8e64f152005-02-13 22:20:49 +0000[diff] [blame]480<p><b>Cygwin GCC 3.3.3</b>: The version of GCC 3.3.3 commonly shipped with
481 Cygwin does not work. Please <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html#cygwin">upgrade
482 to a newer version</a> if possible.</p>
483<p><b>SuSE GCC 3.3.3</b>: The version of GCC 3.3.3 shipped with SuSE 9.1 (and
484 possibly others) does not compile LLVM correctly (it appears that exception
485 handling is broken in some cases). Please download the FSF 3.3.3 or upgrade
486 to a newer version of GCC.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]487</div>
488
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]489
490
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]491<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
492<div class="doc_section">
493 <a name="starting"><b>Getting Started with LLVM</b></a>
494</div>
495<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
496
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]497<div class="doc_text">
498
499<p>The remainder of this guide is meant to get you up and running with
500LLVM and to give you some basic information about the LLVM environment.</p>
501
502<p>The later sections of this guide describe the <a
503href="#layout">general layout</a> of the the LLVM source tree, a <a
504href="#tutorial">simple example</a> using the LLVM tool chain, and <a
505href="#links">links</a> to find more information about LLVM or to get
506help via e-mail.</p>
507</div>
508
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]509<!-- ======================================================================= -->
510<div class="doc_subsection">
511 <a name="terminology">Terminology and Notation</a>
512</div>
513
514<div class="doc_text">
515
516<p>Throughout this manual, the following names are used to denote paths
517specific to the local system and working environment. <i>These are not
518environment variables you need to set but just strings used in the rest
519of this document below</i>. In any of the examples below, simply replace
520each of these names with the appropriate pathname on your local system.
521All these paths are absolute:</p>
522
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]523<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]524 <dt>SRC_ROOT
525 <dd>
526 This is the top level directory of the LLVM source tree.
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]527 <p>
528
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]529 <dt>OBJ_ROOT
530 <dd>
531 This is the top level directory of the LLVM object tree (i.e. the
532 tree where object files and compiled programs will be placed. It
533 can be the same as SRC_ROOT).
534 <p>
535
536 <dt>LLVMGCCDIR
537 <dd>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]538 This is where the LLVM GCC Front End is installed.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]539 <p>
540 For the pre-built GCC front end binaries, the LLVMGCCDIR is
541 <tt>cfrontend/<i>platform</i>/llvm-gcc</tt>.
542</dl>
543
544</div>
545
546<!-- ======================================================================= -->
547<div class="doc_subsection">
548 <a name="environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a>
549</div>
550
551<div class="doc_text">
552
553<p>
Misha Brukman8f0cad12005-02-03 18:28:08 +0000[diff] [blame]554In order to compile and use LLVM, you may need to set some environment
555variables.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]556
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]557<dl>
Reid Spencerf96eb572004-12-15 00:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]558 <dt><tt>LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH</tt>=<tt>/path/to/your/bytecode/libs</tt></dt>
Misha Brukman8f0cad12005-02-03 18:28:08 +0000[diff] [blame]559 <dd>[Optional] This environment variable helps LLVM linking tools find the
560 locations of your bytecode libraries. It is provided only a
561 convenience since you can specify the paths using the -L options of the
562 tools and the C/C++ front-end will use the bytecode files installed in its
563 <tt>lib</tt> directory.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]564</dl>
565
566</div>
567
568<!-- ======================================================================= -->
569<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]570 <a name="unpack">Unpacking the LLVM Archives</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]571</div>
572
573<div class="doc_text">
574
575<p>
576If you have the LLVM distribution, you will need to unpack it before you
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]577can begin to compile it. LLVM is distributed as a set of two files: the LLVM
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]578suite and the LLVM GCC front end compiled for your platform. There is an
579additional test suite that is optional. Each file is a TAR archive that is
580compressed with the gzip program.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]581</p>
582
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]583<p>The files are as follows, with <em>x.y</em> marking the version number:
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]584<dl>
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]585 <dt><tt>llvm-x.y.tar.gz</tt></dt>
586 <dd>Source release for the LLVM libraries and tools.<br/></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]587
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]588 <dt><tt>llvm-test-x.y.tar.gz</tt></dt>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]589 <dd>Source release for the LLVM test suite.</dd>
Misha Brukman8f9e6d62004-11-23 19:26:24 +0000[diff] [blame]590
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]591 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.source.tar.gz</tt></dt>
592 <dd>Source release of the GCC front end.<br/></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]593
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]594 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.gz</tt></dt>
595 <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for Solaris/Sparc.
Reid Spencer129f94e2004-12-08 16:25:25 +0000[diff] [blame]596 <br/></dd>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]597
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]598 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.i686-redhat-linux-gnu.tar.gz</tt></dt>
599 <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for Linux/x86.<br/></dd>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]600
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]601 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.i386-unknown-freebsd5.1.tar.gz</tt></dt>
602 <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for FreeBSD/x86.<br/></dd>
Reid Spencer129f94e2004-12-08 16:25:25 +0000[diff] [blame]603
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]604 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0.tar.gz</tt></dt>
605 <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for MacOS X/PPC.<br/></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]606</dl>
607
608</div>
609
610<!-- ======================================================================= -->
611<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]612 <a name="checkout">Checkout LLVM from CVS</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]613</div>
614
615<div class="doc_text">
616
617<p>If you have access to our CVS repository, you can get a fresh copy of
618the entire source code. All you need to do is check it out from CVS as
619follows:</p>
620
621<ul>
622<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
623 <li><tt>cvs -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm login</tt>
624 <li>Hit the return key when prompted for the password.
625 <li><tt>cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm co
626 llvm</tt>
627</ul>
628
629<p>This will create an '<tt>llvm</tt>' directory in the current
630directory and fully populate it with the LLVM source code, Makefiles,
631test directories, and local copies of documentation files.</p>
632
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]633<p>If you want to get a specific release (as opposed to the most recent
634revision), you can specify a label. The following releases have the following
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]635labels:</p>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]636
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]637<ul>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]638<li>Release 1.4: <b>RELEASE_14</b></li>
John Criswell18b74642004-08-16 14:51:33 +0000[diff] [blame]639<li>Release 1.3: <b>RELEASE_13</b></li>
Misha Brukmanb9be2bf2004-05-12 19:25:59 +0000[diff] [blame]640<li>Release 1.2: <b>RELEASE_12</b></li>
641<li>Release 1.1: <b>RELEASE_11</b></li>
642<li>Release 1.0: <b>RELEASE_1</b></li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]643</ul>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]644
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]645<p>If you would like to get the LLVM test suite (a separate package as of 1.4),
646you get it from the CVS repository:</p>
647<pre>
648 cd llvm/projects
649 cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm co llvm-test
650</pre>
651<p>By placing it in the <tt>llvm/projects</tt>, it will be automatically
John Criswellc4ef3f22004-12-08 16:55:27 +0000[diff] [blame]652configured by the LLVM configure script as well as automatically updated when
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]653you run <tt>cvs update</tt>.</p>
654
Misha Brukmanb9be2bf2004-05-12 19:25:59 +0000[diff] [blame]655<p>If you would like to get the GCC front end source code, you can also get it
656from the CVS repository:</p>
657
Chris Lattner604fdc12004-06-28 17:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]658<pre>
659 cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm co llvm-gcc
Misha Brukmanb9be2bf2004-05-12 19:25:59 +0000[diff] [blame]660</pre>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]661
Chris Lattner604fdc12004-06-28 17:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]662<p>Please note that you must follow <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">these
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]663instructions</a> to successfully build the LLVM GCC front-end.</p>
Chris Lattner604fdc12004-06-28 17:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]664
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]665</div>
666
667<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Chris Lattner883bcbe2004-06-18 20:15:58 +0000[diff] [blame]668<div class="doc_subsubsection">
669 <a name="mirrors">LLVM CVS Mirrors</a>
670</div>
671
672<div class="doc_text">
673
674<p>If the main CVS server is overloaded or inaccessible, you can try one of
675these user-hosted mirrors:</p>
676
677<ul>
Misha Brukmanb3707ba2004-06-18 20:18:31 +0000[diff] [blame]678<li><a href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/">Mirror hosted by eXtensible Systems
679Inc.</a></li>
Chris Lattner883bcbe2004-06-18 20:15:58 +0000[diff] [blame]680</ul>
681</div>
682
683<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]684<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]685 <a name="installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]686</div>
687
688<div class="doc_text">
689
690<p>Before configuring and compiling the LLVM suite, you need to extract the LLVM
691GCC front end from the binary distribution. It is used for building the
692bytecode libraries later used by the GCC front end for linking programs, and its
693location must be specified when the LLVM suite is configured.</p>
694
695<p>To install the GCC front end, do the following:</p>
696
697<ol>
698 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]699 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout cfrontend-<i>version</i>.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]700 -</tt></li>
701</ol>
702
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]703<p>Next, you will need to fix your system header files:</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]704
John Criswell364cec42004-03-12 20:31:37 +0000[diff] [blame]705<p><tt>cd cfrontend/<i>platform</i><br>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]706 ./fixheaders</tt></p>
707
708<p>The binary versions of the GCC front end may not suit all of your needs. For
709example, the binary distribution may include an old version of a system header
710file, not "fix" a header file that needs to be fixed for GCC, or it may be
711linked with libraries not available on your system.</p>
712
713<p>In cases like these, you may want to try <a
714href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">building the GCC front end from source.</a> This is
715not for the faint of heart, so be forewarned.</p>
716
717</div>
718
719<!-- ======================================================================= -->
720<div class="doc_subsection">
721 <a name="config">Local LLVM Configuration</a>
722</div>
723
724<div class="doc_text">
725
726<p>Once checked out from the CVS repository, the LLVM suite source code must be
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]727configured via the <tt>configure</tt> script. This script sets variables in the
728various <tt>*.in</tt> files, most notably <tt>llvm/Makefile.config</tt> and
729<tt>llvm/include/Config/config.h</tt>. It also populates <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> with
730the Makefiles needed to begin building LLVM.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]731
732<p>The following environment variables are used by the <tt>configure</tt>
733script to configure the build system:</p>
734
Reid Spencerd3f876c2004-11-01 08:19:36 +0000[diff] [blame]735<table>
736 <tr><th>Variable</th><th>Purpose</th></tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]737 <tr>
738 <td>CC</td>
739 <td>Tells <tt>configure</tt> which C compiler to use. By default,
740 <tt>configure</tt> will look for the first GCC C compiler in
741 <tt>PATH</tt>. Use this variable to override
742 <tt>configure</tt>'s default behavior.</td>
743 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]744 <tr>
745 <td>CXX</td>
746 <td>Tells <tt>configure</tt> which C++ compiler to use. By default,
747 <tt>configure</tt> will look for the first GCC C++ compiler in
748 <tt>PATH</tt>. Use this variable to override
749 <tt>configure</tt>'s default behavior.</td>
750 </tr>
751</table>
752
753<p>The following options can be used to set or enable LLVM specific options:</p>
754
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]755<dl>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]756 <dt><i>--with-llvmgccdir</i></dt>
757 <dd>Path to the LLVM C/C++ FrontEnd to be used with this LLVM configuration.
758 The value of this option should specify the full pathname of the C/C++ Front
759 End to be used. If this option is not provided, the PATH will be searched for
760 a program named <i>llvm-gcc</i> and the C/C++ FrontEnd install directory will
761 be inferred from the path found. If the option is not given, and no llvm-gcc
762 can be found in the path then a warning will be produced by
763 <tt>configure</tt> indicating this situation. LLVM may still be built with
764 the <tt>tools-only</tt> target but attempting to build the runtime libraries
765 will fail as these libraries require llvm-gcc and llvm-g++. See
766 <a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a> for details on installing
767 the C/C++ Front End. See
768 <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">Bootstrapping the LLVM C/C++ Front-End</a>
769 for details on building the C/C++ Front End.</dd>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]770 <dt><i>--with-tclinclude</i></dt>
771 <dd>Path to the tcl include directory under which the <tt>tclsh</tt> can be
772 found. Use this if you have multiple tcl installations on your machine and you
773 want to use a specific one (8.x) for LLVM. LLVM only uses tcl for running the
774 dejagnu based test suite in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. If you don't specify this
775 option, the LLVM configure script will search for tcl 8.4 and 8.3 releases.
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]776 <p></p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]777 </dd>
778 <dt><i>--enable-optimized</i></dt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]779 <dd>
780 Enables optimized compilation by default (debugging symbols are removed
781 and GCC optimization flags are enabled). The default is to use an
782 unoptimized build (also known as a debug build).
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]783 <p></p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]784 </dd>
785 <dt><i>--enable-jit</i></dt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]786 <dd>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]787 Compile the Just In Time (JIT) compiler functionality. This is not
788 available
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]789 on all platforms. The default is dependent on platform, so it is best
790 to explicitly enable it if you want it.
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]791 <p></p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]792 </dd>
Reid Spencer2dedcf52005-04-22 17:58:03 +0000[diff] [blame^]793 <dt><i>--enable-targets=</i><tt>target-option</tt></dt>
794 <dd>Controls which targets will be built and linked into llc. The default
795 value for <tt>target_options</tt> is "all" which builds and links all
796 available targets. The value "host-only" can be specified to build only a
797 native compiler (no cross-compiler targets available). The "native" target is
798 selected as the target of the build host. You can also specify a comma
799 separated list of target names that you want available in llc. The target
800 names use all lower case. The current set is of targets is: <br/>
801 <tt>alpha, ia64, powerpc, skeleton, sparc, x86</tt>.
802 <p></p></dd>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]803 <dt><i>--enable-doxygen</i></dt>
804 <dd>Look for the doxygen program and enable construction of doxygen based
805 documentation from the source code. This is disabled by default because
806 generating the documentation can take a long time and producess 100s of
807 megabytes of output.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]808</dl>
809
810<p>To configure LLVM, follow these steps:</p>
811
812<ol>
813 <li>Change directory into the object root directory:
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]814 <br>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]815 <tt>cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></tt>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]816 <p>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]817
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]818 <li>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script located in the LLVM source tree:
819 <br>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]820 <tt><i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure --prefix=/install/path [other options]</tt>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]821 <p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]822</ol>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]823
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]824</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]825
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]826<!-- ======================================================================= -->
827<div class="doc_subsection">
828 <a name="compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a>
829</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]830
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]831<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]832
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]833<p>Once you have configured LLVM, you can build it. There are three types of
834builds:</p>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]835
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]836<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]837 <dt>Debug Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]838 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]839 These builds are the default when one types <tt>gmake</tt> (unless the
840 <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> option was used during configuration). The
841 build system will compile the tools and libraries with debugging
842 information.
843 <p>
844
845 <dt>Release (Optimized) Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]846 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]847 These builds are enabled with the <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> option to
848 <tt>configure</tt> or by specifying <tt>ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1</tt> on the
849 <tt>gmake</tt> command line. For these builds, the build system will
850 compile the tools and libraries with GCC optimizations enabled and strip
851 debugging information from the libraries and executables it generates.
852 <p>
853
854 <dt>Profile Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]855 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]856 These builds are for use with profiling. They compile profiling
857 information into the code for use with programs like <tt>gprof</tt>.
858 Profile builds must be started by specifying <tt>ENABLE_PROFILING=1</tt>
859 on the <tt>gmake</tt> command line.
860</dl>
John Criswell7a73b802003-06-30 21:59:07 +0000[diff] [blame]861
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]862<p>Once you have LLVM configured, you can build it by entering the
863<i>OBJ_ROOT</i> directory and issuing the following command:</p>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]864
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]865<p><tt>gmake</tt></p>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]866
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]867<p>If the build fails, please <a href="#brokengcc">check here</a> to see if you
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]868are using a version of GCC that is known not to compile LLVM.</p>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]869
870<p>
871If you have multiple processors in your machine, you may wish to use some of
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]872the parallel build options provided by GNU Make. For example, you could use the
873command:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]874
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]875<p><tt>gmake -j2</tt></p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]876
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]877<p>There are several special targets which are useful when working with the LLVM
878source code:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]879
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]880<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]881 <dt><tt>gmake clean</tt>
882 <dd>
883 Removes all files generated by the build. This includes object files,
884 generated C/C++ files, libraries, and executables.
885 <p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]886
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]887 <dt><tt>gmake dist-clean</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]888 <dd>
Misha Brukmanad38e962004-08-21 23:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]889 Removes everything that <tt>gmake clean</tt> does, but also removes files
890 generated by <tt>configure</tt>. It attempts to return the source tree to the
891 original state in which it was shipped.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]892 <p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]893
Misha Brukmane51c3562004-08-23 20:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]894 <dt><tt>gmake install</tt>
895 <dd>
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]896 Installs LLVM header files, libraries, tools, and documentation in a
897 hierarchy
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]898 under $PREFIX, specified with <tt>./configure --prefix=[dir]</tt>, which
899 defaults to <tt>/usr/local</tt>.
Misha Brukmane51c3562004-08-23 20:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]900 <p>
901
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]902 <dt><tt>gmake -C runtime install-bytecode</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]903 <dd>
Reid Spencer7863c402004-11-11 07:30:27 +0000[diff] [blame]904 Assuming you built LLVM into $OBJDIR, when this command is run, it will
905 install bytecode libraries into the GCC front end's bytecode library
906 directory. If you need to update your bytecode libraries,
Misha Brukmanad38e962004-08-21 23:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]907 this is the target to use once you've built them.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]908 <p>
909</dl>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]910
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]911<p>Please see the <a href="MakefileGuide.html">Makefile Guide</a> for further
912details on these <tt>make</tt> targets and descriptions of other targets
913available.</p>
914
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]915<p>It is also possible to override default values from <tt>configure</tt> by
916declaring variables on the command line. The following are some examples:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]917
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]918<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]919 <dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1</tt>
920 <dd>
921 Perform a Release (Optimized) build.
922 <p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]923
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]924 <dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_PROFILING=1</tt>
925 <dd>
926 Perform a Profiling build.
927 <p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]928
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]929 <dt><tt>gmake VERBOSE=1</tt>
930 <dd>
931 Print what <tt>gmake</tt> is doing on standard output.
932 <p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]933
934 <dt><tt>gmake TOOL_VERBOSE=1</tt></dt>
935 <dd>Ask each tool invoked by the makefiles to print out what it is doing on
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]936 the standard output. This also implies <tt>VERBOSE=1</tt>.
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]937 <p></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]938</dl>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]939
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]940<p>Every directory in the LLVM object tree includes a <tt>Makefile</tt> to build
941it and any subdirectories that it contains. Entering any directory inside the
942LLVM object tree and typing <tt>gmake</tt> should rebuild anything in or below
943that directory that is out of date.</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]944
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]945</div>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]946
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]947<!-- ======================================================================= -->
948<div class="doc_subsection">
949 <a name="objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a>
950</div>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]951
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]952<div class="doc_text">
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]953
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]954<p>The LLVM build system is capable of sharing a single LLVM source tree among
955several LLVM builds. Hence, it is possible to build LLVM for several different
956platforms or configurations using the same source tree.</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]957
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]958<p>This is accomplished in the typical autoconf manner:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]959
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]960<ul>
961 <li><p>Change directory to where the LLVM object files should live:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]962
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]963 <p><tt>cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></tt></p></li>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]964
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]965 <li><p>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script found in the LLVM source
966 directory:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]967
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]968 <p><tt><i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure</tt></p></li>
969</ul>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]970
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]971<p>The LLVM build will place files underneath <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> in directories
972named after the build type:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]973
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]974<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]975 <dt>Debug Builds
976 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]977 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]978 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]979 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Debug/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]980 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]981 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Debug/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]982 </dl>
983 <p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]984
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]985 <dt>Release Builds
986 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]987 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]988 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]989 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Release/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]990 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]991 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Release/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]992 </dl>
993 <p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]994
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]995 <dt>Profile Builds
996 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]997 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]998 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]999 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Profile/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1000 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1001 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Profile/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1002 </dl>
1003</dl>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1004
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1005</div>
Chris Lattner7fe7f812002-07-24 19:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1006
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1007<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1008<div class="doc_subsection">
1009 <a name="optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a>
1010</div>
1011
1012<div class="doc_text">
1013
1014<p>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1015If you're running on a Linux system that supports the "<a
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1016 href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/linux/binfmt_misc.html">
1017 binfmt_misc</a>"
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1018module, and you have root access on the system, you can set your system up to
1019execute LLVM bytecode files directly. To do this, use commands like this (the
1020first command may not be required if you are already using the module):</p>
1021
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1022<div class="doc_code">
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1023<pre>
1024 $ mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1025 $ echo ':llvm:M::llvm::/path/to/lli:' &gt; /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1026 $ chmod u+x hello.bc (if needed)
1027 $ ./hello.bc
1028</pre>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1029</div>
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1030
1031<p>
1032This allows you to execute LLVM bytecode files directly. Thanks to Jack
1033Cummings for pointing this out!
1034</p>
1035
1036</div>
1037
1038
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1039<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1040<div class="doc_section">
1041 <a name="layout"><b>Program Layout</b></a>
1042</div>
1043<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1044
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1045<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1046
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1047<p>One useful source of information about the LLVM source base is the LLVM <a
John Criswell364cec42004-03-12 20:31:37 +0000[diff] [blame]1048href="http://www.doxygen.org">doxygen</a> documentation available at <tt><a
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1049href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/doxygen/">http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/doxygen/</a></tt>.
1050The following is a brief introduction to code layout:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1051
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1052</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1053
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1054<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1055<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="cvsdir"><tt>CVS</tt> directories</a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1056<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1057<p>Every directory checked out of CVS will contain a <tt>CVS</tt> directory; for
1058the most part these can just be ignored.</p>
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1059</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1060
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1061<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1062<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a></div>
1063<div class="doc_text">
1064 <p>This directory contains some simple examples of how to use the LLVM IR and
1065 JIT.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1066</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1067
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1068<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1069<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="include"><tt>llvm/include</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1070<div class="doc_text">
1071
1072<p>This directory contains public header files exported from the LLVM
1073library. The three main subdirectories of this directory are:</p>
1074
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1075<dl>
1076 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm</b></tt></dt>
1077 <dd>This directory contains all of the LLVM specific header files. This
1078 directory also has subdirectories for different portions of LLVM:
1079 <tt>Analysis</tt>, <tt>CodeGen</tt>, <tt>Target</tt>, <tt>Transforms</tt>,
1080 etc...</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1081
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1082 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm/Support</b></tt></dt>
1083 <dd>This directory contains generic support libraries that are provided with
1084 LLVM but not necessarily specific to LLVM. For example, some C++ STL utilities
1085 and a Command Line option processing library store their header files here.
1086 </dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1087
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1088 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm/Config</b></tt></dt>
1089 <dd>This directory contains header files configured by the <tt>configure</tt>
1090 script. They wrap "standard" UNIX and C header files. Source code can
1091 include these header files which automatically take care of the conditional
1092 #includes that the <tt>configure</tt> script generates.</dd>
1093</dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1094</div>
1095
1096<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1097<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="lib"><tt>llvm/lib</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1098<div class="doc_text">
1099
1100<p>This directory contains most of the source files of the LLVM system. In LLVM,
1101almost all code exists in libraries, making it very easy to share code among the
1102different <a href="#tools">tools</a>.</p>
1103
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1104<dl>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1105 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/VMCore/</b></tt></dt>
1106 <dd> This directory holds the core LLVM source files that implement core
1107 classes like Instruction and BasicBlock.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1108
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1109 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/AsmParser/</b></tt></dt>
1110 <dd>This directory holds the source code for the LLVM assembly language parser
1111 library.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1112
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1113 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/ByteCode/</b></tt></dt>
1114 <dd>This directory holds code for reading and write LLVM bytecode.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1115
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1116 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Analysis/</b></tt><dd>This directory contains a variety of
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1117 different program analyses, such as Dominator Information, Call Graphs,
1118 Induction Variables, Interval Identification, Natural Loop Identification,
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1119 etc.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1120
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1121 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Transforms/</b></tt></dt>
1122 <dd> This directory contains the source code for the LLVM to LLVM program
1123 transformations, such as Aggressive Dead Code Elimination, Sparse Conditional
1124 Constant Propagation, Inlining, Loop Invariant Code Motion, Dead Global
1125 Elimination, and many others.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1126
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1127 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Target/</b></tt></dt>
1128 <dd> This directory contains files that describe various target architectures
1129 for code generation. For example, the <tt>llvm/lib/Target/SparcV9</tt>
1130 directory holds the Sparc machine description while
1131 <tt>llvm/lib/Target/CBackend</tt> implements the LLVM-to-C converter</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1132
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1133 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/CodeGen/</b></tt></dt>
1134 <dd> This directory contains the major parts of the code generator: Instruction
1135 Selector, Instruction Scheduling, and Register Allocation.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1136
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1137 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Debugger/</b></tt></dt>
1138 <dd> This directory contains the source level debugger library that makes
1139 it possible to instrument LLVM programs so that a debugger could identify
1140 source code locations at which the program is executing.</dd>
1141
1142 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/</b></tt></dt>
1143 <dd> This directory contains libraries for executing LLVM bytecode directly
1144 at runtime in both interpreted and JIT compiled fashions.</dd>
1145
1146 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Support/</b></tt></dt>
1147 <dd> This directory contains the source code that corresponds to the header
1148 files located in <tt>llvm/include/Support/</tt>.</dd>
1149
1150 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/System/</b></tt></dt>
1151 <dd>This directory contains the operating system abstraction layer that
1152 shields LLVM from platform-specific coding.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1153</dl>
John Criswell7a73b802003-06-30 21:59:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1154
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1155</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1156
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1157<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1158<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="projects"><tt>llvm/projects</tt></a></div>
1159<div class="doc_text">
1160 <p>This directory contains projects that are not strictly part of LLVM but are
1161 shipped with LLVM. This is also the directory where you should create your own
1162 LLVM-based projects. See <tt>llvm/projects/sample</tt> for an example of how
1163 to set up your own project. See <tt>llvm/projects/Stacker</tt> for a fully
1164 functional example of a compiler front end.</p>
1165</div>
1166
1167<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1168<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1169<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1170
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1171<p>This directory contains libraries which are compiled into LLVM bytecode and
1172used when linking programs with the GCC front end. Most of these libraries are
1173skeleton versions of real libraries; for example, libc is a stripped down
1174version of glibc.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1175
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1176<p>Unlike the rest of the LLVM suite, this directory needs the LLVM GCC front
1177end to compile.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1178
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1179</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1180
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1181<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1182<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="test"><tt>llvm/test</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1183<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1184 <p>This directory contains feature and regression tests and other basic sanity
1185 checks on the LLVM infrastructure. These are intended to run quickly and cover
1186 a lot of territory without being exhaustive.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1187</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1188
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1189<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1190<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="llvmtest"><tt>llvm-test</tt></a></div>
1191<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]1192 <p>This is not a directory in the normal llvm module; it is a separate CVS
Misha Brukmane12215f2004-11-15 23:20:51 +0000[diff] [blame]1193 module that must be checked out (usually to <tt>projects/llvm-test</tt>). This
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]1194 module contains a comprehensive correctness, performance, and benchmarking
1195 test
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1196 suite for LLVM. It is a separate CVS module because not every LLVM user is
1197 interested in downloading or building such a comprehensive test. For further
1198 details on this test suite, please see the
1199 <a href="TestingGuide.html">Testing Guide</a> document.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1200</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1201
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1202<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1203<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="tools"><tt>llvm/tools</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1204<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1205
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1206<p>The <b>tools</b> directory contains the executables built out of the
1207libraries above, which form the main part of the user interface. You can
1208always get help for a tool by typing <tt>tool_name --help</tt>. The
Misha Brukmane12215f2004-11-15 23:20:51 +0000[diff] [blame]1209following is a brief introduction to the most important tools. More detailed
1210information is in the <a href="CommandGuide/index.html">Command Guide</a>.</p>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1211
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1212<dl>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1213 <dt><tt><b>analyze</b></tt></dt>
1214 <dd><tt>analyze</tt> is used to run a specific
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1215 analysis on an input LLVM bytecode file and print out the results. It is
1216 primarily useful for debugging analyses, or familiarizing yourself with
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1217 what an analysis does.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1218
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1219 <dt><tt><b>bugpoint</b></tt></dt>
1220 <dd><tt>bugpoint</tt> is used to debug
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1221 optimization passes or code generation backends by narrowing down the
1222 given test case to the minimum number of passes and/or instructions that
1223 still cause a problem, whether it is a crash or miscompilation. See <a
1224 href="HowToSubmitABug.html">HowToSubmitABug.html</a> for more information
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1225 on using <tt>bugpoint</tt>.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1226
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1227 <dt><tt><b>llvmc</b></tt></dt>
1228 <dd>The LLVM Compiler Driver. This program can
1229 be configured to utilize both LLVM and non-LLVM compilation tools to enable
1230 pre-processing, translation, optimization, assembly, and linking of programs
1231 all from one command line. <tt>llvmc</tt> also takes care of processing the
1232 dependent libraries found in bytecode. This reduces the need to get the
Reid Spencer079e9452004-12-08 18:00:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1233 traditional <tt>-l&lt;name&gt;</tt> options right on the command line. Please
1234 note that this tool is new in 1.4 and considered experimental. It will be
1235 fully supported in 1.5.</dd>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1236
1237 <dt><tt><b>llvm-ar</b></tt></dt>
1238 <dd>The archiver produces an archive containing
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1239 the given LLVM bytecode files, optionally with an index for faster
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1240 lookup.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1241
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1242 <dt><tt><b>llvm-as</b></tt></dt>
1243 <dd>The assembler transforms the human readable LLVM assembly to LLVM
1244 bytecode.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1245
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1246 <dt><tt><b>llvm-dis</b></tt></dt>
1247 <dd>The disassembler transforms the LLVM bytecode to human readable
1248 LLVM assembly.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1249
Reid Spencer079e9452004-12-08 18:00:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1250 <dt><tt><b>llvm-ld</b></tt></dt>
1251 <dd><tt>llvm-ld</tt> is very similar to gccld and provides a general purpose
1252 and extensible linker for LLVM. This is the linker invoked by <tt>llvmc</tt>.
1253 It allows optimization modules to be loaded so that language specific
1254 optimizations can be applied at link time. Please note that this tool is new
1255 in LLVM 1.4 and still considered experimental. It will be fully supported in
1256 LLVM 1.5.</dd>
1257
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1258 <dt><tt><b>llvm-link</b></tt></dt>
1259 <dd><tt>llvm-link</tt>, not surprisingly, links multiple LLVM modules into
1260 a single program.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1261
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1262 <dt><tt><b>lli</b></tt></dt>
1263 <dd><tt>lli</tt> is the LLVM interpreter, which
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1264 can directly execute LLVM bytecode (although very slowly...). In addition
1265 to a simple interpreter, <tt>lli</tt> also has a tracing mode (entered by
1266 specifying <tt>-trace</tt> on the command line). Finally, for
John Criswelld9eceee2004-12-08 18:04:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1267 architectures that support it (currently x86, Sparc, and PowerPC), by default,
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1268 <tt>lli</tt> will function as a Just-In-Time compiler (if the
1269 functionality was compiled in), and will execute the code <i>much</i>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1270 faster than the interpreter.</dd>
Misha Brukmanef0ad412003-10-06 19:23:34 +0000[diff] [blame]1271
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1272 <dt><tt><b>llc</b></tt></dt>
1273 <dd> <tt>llc</tt> is the LLVM backend compiler, which
Chris Lattner036e6392004-02-14 01:07:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1274 translates LLVM bytecode to a SPARC or x86 assembly file, or to C code (with
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1275 the -march=c option).</dd>
Misha Brukmanef0ad412003-10-06 19:23:34 +0000[diff] [blame]1276
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1277 <dt><tt><b>llvm-gcc</b></tt></dt>
1278 <dd><tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is a GCC-based C frontend
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1279 that has been retargeted to emit LLVM code as the machine code output. It
1280 works just like any other GCC compiler, taking the typical <tt>-c, -S, -E,
1281 -o</tt> options that are typically used. The source code for the
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1282 <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> tool is currently not included in the LLVM CVS tree
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1283 because it is quite large and not very interesting.
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1284 <blockquote>
1285 <dl>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1286 <dt><tt><b>gccas</b></tt></dt>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1287 <dd>This tool is invoked by the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> frontend as the
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1288 "assembler" part of the compiler. This tool actually assembles LLVM
1289 assembly to LLVM bytecode, performs a variety of optimizations, and
1290 outputs LLVM bytecode. Thus when you invoke
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1291 <tt>llvm-gcc -c x.c -o x.o</tt>, you are causing <tt>gccas</tt> to be
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1292 run, which writes the <tt>x.o</tt> file (which is an LLVM bytecode file
1293 that can be disassembled or manipulated just like any other bytecode
1294 file). The command line interface to <tt>gccas</tt> is designed to be
1295 as close as possible to the <b>system</b> `<tt>as</tt>' utility so that
1296 the gcc frontend itself did not have to be modified to interface to
1297 a "weird" assembler.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1298
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1299 <dt><tt><b>gccld</b></tt></dt>
1300 <dd><tt>gccld</tt> links together several LLVM bytecode files into one
1301 bytecode file and does some optimization. It is the linker invoked by
1302 the GCC frontend when multiple .o files need to be linked together.
1303 Like <tt>gccas</tt>, the command line interface of <tt>gccld</tt> is
1304 designed to match the system linker, to aid interfacing with the GCC
1305 frontend.</dd>
1306 </dl>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1307 </blockquote>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1308 </dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1309
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1310 <dt><tt><b>opt</b></tt></dt>
1311 <dd><tt>opt</tt> reads LLVM bytecode, applies a
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1312 series of LLVM to LLVM transformations (which are specified on the command
1313 line), and then outputs the resultant bytecode. The '<tt>opt --help</tt>'
1314 command is a good way to get a list of the program transformations
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1315 available in LLVM.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1316</dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1317</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1318
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1319<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1320<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="utils"><tt>llvm/utils</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1321<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1322
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1323<p>This directory contains utilities for working with LLVM source code, and some
1324of the utilities are actually required as part of the build process because they
1325are code generators for parts of LLVM infrastructure.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1326
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1327<dl>
1328 <dt><tt><b>Burg/</b></tt> <dd><tt>Burg</tt> is an instruction selector
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1329 generator -- it builds trees on which it then performs pattern-matching to
1330 select instructions according to the patterns the user has specified. Burg
1331 is currently used in the Sparc V9 backend.<p>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]1332
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1333 <dt><tt><b>codegen-diff</b></tt> <dd><tt>codegen-diff</tt> is a script
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1334 that finds differences between code that LLC generates and code that LLI
1335 generates. This is a useful tool if you are debugging one of them,
1336 assuming that the other generates correct output. For the full user
1337 manual, run <tt>`perldoc codegen-diff'</tt>.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1338
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1339 <dt><tt><b>cvsupdate</b></tt> <dd><tt>cvsupdate</tt> is a script that will
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1340 update your CVS tree, but produce a much cleaner and more organized output
1341 than simply running <tt>`cvs -z3 up -dP'</tt> will. For example, it will group
1342 together all the new and updated files and modified files in separate
1343 sections, so you can see at a glance what has changed. If you are at the
1344 top of your LLVM CVS tree, running <tt>utils/cvsupdate</tt> is the
1345 preferred way of updating the tree.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1346
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1347 <dt><tt><b>emacs/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>emacs</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1348 syntax-highlighting files which will work with Emacs and XEmacs editors,
1349 providing syntax highlighting support for LLVM assembly files and TableGen
1350 description files. For information on how to use the syntax files, consult
1351 the <tt>README</tt> file in that directory.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1352
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1353 <dt><tt><b>getsrcs.sh</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>getsrcs.sh</tt> script finds
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1354 and outputs all non-generated source files, which is useful if one wishes
1355 to do a lot of development across directories and does not want to
1356 individually find each file. One way to use it is to run, for example:
1357 <tt>xemacs `utils/getsources.sh`</tt> from the top of your LLVM source
1358 tree.<p>
1359
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1360 <dt><tt><b>llvmgrep</b></tt></dt>
1361 <dd>This little tool performs an "egrep -H -n" on each source file in LLVM and
1362 passes to it a regular expression provided on <tt>llvmgrep</tt>'s command
1363 line. This is a very efficient way of searching the source base for a
1364 particular regular expression.</dd>
1365
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1366 <dt><tt><b>makellvm</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>makellvm</tt> script compiles all
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1367 files in the current directory and then compiles and links the tool that
1368 is the first argument. For example, assuming you are in the directory
1369 <tt>llvm/lib/Target/Sparc</tt>, if <tt>makellvm</tt> is in your path,
1370 simply running <tt>makellvm llc</tt> will make a build of the current
1371 directory, switch to directory <tt>llvm/tools/llc</tt> and build it,
1372 causing a re-linking of LLC.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1373
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1374 <dt><tt><b>NightlyTest.pl</b></tt> and
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1375 <tt><b>NightlyTestTemplate.html</b></tt> <dd>These files are used in a
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1376 cron script to generate nightly status reports of the functionality of
1377 tools, and the results can be seen by following the appropriate link on
1378 the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/">LLVM homepage</a>.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1379
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1380 <dt><tt><b>TableGen/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>TableGen</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1381 the tool used to generate register descriptions, instruction set
1382 descriptions, and even assemblers from common TableGen description
1383 files.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1384
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1385 <dt><tt><b>vim/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>vim</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1386 syntax-highlighting files which will work with the VIM editor, providing
1387 syntax highlighting support for LLVM assembly files and TableGen
1388 description files. For information on how to use the syntax files, consult
1389 the <tt>README</tt> file in that directory.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1390
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1391</dl>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1392
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1393</div>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1394
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1395<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1396<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="win32"><tt>llvm/win32</tt></a></div>
1397<div class="doc_text">
1398 <p>This directory contains build scripts and project files for use with
1399 Visual C++. This allows developers on Windows to build LLVM without the need
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]1400 for Cygwin. The contents of this directory should be considered experimental
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1401 at this time.
1402 </p>
1403</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1404<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1405<div class="doc_section">
1406 <a name="tutorial">An Example Using the LLVM Tool Chain</a>
1407</div>
1408<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1409
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1410<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1411
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1412<ol>
1413 <li>First, create a simple C file, name it 'hello.c':
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1414 <pre>
1415 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
1416 int main() {
1417 printf("hello world\n");
1418 return 0;
1419 }
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1420 </pre></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1421
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1422 <li><p>Next, compile the C file into a LLVM bytecode file:</p>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1423 <p><tt>% llvm-gcc hello.c -o hello</tt></p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1424
Misha Brukmanf089cdf2004-06-22 18:48:58 +0000[diff] [blame]1425 <p>Note that you should have already built the tools and they have to be
1426 in your path, at least <tt>gccas</tt> and <tt>gccld</tt>.</p>
1427
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1428 <p>This will create two result files: <tt>hello</tt> and
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1429 <tt>hello.bc</tt>. The <tt>hello.bc</tt> is the LLVM bytecode that
1430 corresponds the the compiled program and the library facilities that it
1431 required. <tt>hello</tt> is a simple shell script that runs the bytecode
Chris Lattnera19a3db2004-05-01 11:40:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1432 file with <tt>lli</tt>, making the result directly executable. Note that
1433 all LLVM optimizations are enabled by default, so there is no need for a
1434 "-O3" switch.</p></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1435
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1436 <li><p>Run the program. To make sure the program ran, execute one of the
1437 following commands:</p>
John Criswell8df90e02003-06-11 20:46:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1438
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1439 <p><tt>% ./hello</tt></p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1440
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1441 <p>or</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1442
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1443 <p><tt>% lli hello.bc</tt></p></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1444
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1445 <li><p>Use the <tt>llvm-dis</tt> utility to take a look at the LLVM assembly
1446 code:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1447
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1448 <p><tt>% llvm-dis &lt; hello.bc | less</tt><p></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1449
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1450 <li><p>Compile the program to native assembly using the LLC code
1451 generator:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1452
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1453 <p><tt>% llc hello.bc -o hello.s</tt></p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1454
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1455 <li><p>Assemble the native assembly language file into a program:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1456
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1457 <p><b>Solaris:</b><tt>% /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -xarch=v9 hello.s -o hello.native</tt></p>
1458 <p><b>Others:</b><tt>% gcc hello.s -o hello.native</tt></p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1459
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1460 <li><p>Execute the native code program:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1461
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1462 <p><tt>% ./hello.native</tt></p></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1463
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1464</ol>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1465
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1466</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1467
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1468<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1469<div class="doc_section">
1470 <a name="problems">Common Problems</a>
1471</div>
1472<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1473
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1474<div class="doc_text">
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1475
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1476<p>If you are having problems building or using LLVM, or if you have any other
1477general questions about LLVM, please consult the <a href="FAQ.html">Frequently
1478Asked Questions</a> page.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1479
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1480</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1481
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1482<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1483<div class="doc_section">
1484 <a name="links">Links</a>
1485</div>
1486<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1487
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1488<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1489
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1490<p>This document is just an <b>introduction</b> to how to use LLVM to do
1491some simple things... there are many more interesting and complicated things
1492that you can do that aren't documented here (but we'll gladly accept a patch
1493if you want to write something up!). For more information about LLVM, check
1494out:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1495
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1496<ul>
1497 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/">LLVM homepage</a></li>
1498 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/doxygen/">LLVM doxygen tree</a></li>
1499 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/Projects.html">Starting a Project
1500 that Uses LLVM</a></li>
1501</ul>
1502
1503</div>
1504
1505<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1506
1507<hr>
Misha Brukman142207b2003-11-22 01:30:01 +0000[diff] [blame]1508<address>
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Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1515 <a href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/rspencer/">Reid Spencer</a><br>
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