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John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]10
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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>
Chris Lattner269f80c2007-11-01 04:20:16 +0000[diff] [blame]20 <li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a></li>
21 <li><a href="#software">Software</a></li>
22 <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a></li>
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>
Chris Lattner269f80c2007-11-01 04:20:16 +0000[diff] [blame]27 <li><a href="#terminology">Terminology and Notation</a></li>
28 <li><a href="#environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a></li>
29 <li><a href="#unpack">Unpacking the LLVM Archives</a></li>
30 <li><a href="#checkout">Checkout LLVM from Subversion</a></li>
31 <li><a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a></li>
32 <li><a href="#config">Local LLVM Configuration</a></li>
33 <li><a href="#compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a></li>
34 <li><a href="#cross-compile">Cross-Compiling LLVM</a></li>
35 <li><a href="#objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a></li>
36 <li><a href="#optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]37 </ol></li>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]38
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]39 <li><a href="#layout">Program layout</a>
40 <ol>
Chris Lattner269f80c2007-11-01 04:20:16 +0000[diff] [blame]41 <li><a href="#examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a></li>
42 <li><a href="#include"><tt>llvm/include</tt></a></li>
43 <li><a href="#lib"><tt>llvm/lib</tt></a></li>
44 <li><a href="#projects"><tt>llvm/projects</tt></a></li>
45 <li><a href="#runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a></li>
46 <li><a href="#test"><tt>llvm/test</tt></a></li>
47 <li><a href="#llvmtest"><tt>llvm-test</tt></a></li>
48 <li><a href="#tools"><tt>llvm/tools</tt></a></li>
49 <li><a href="#utils"><tt>llvm/utils</tt></a></li>
50 <li><a href="#win32"><tt>llvm/win32</tt></a></li>
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>
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]54 <ol>
55 <li><a href="#tutorial4">Example with llvm-gcc4</a></li>
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]56 </ol>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]57 <li><a href="#problems">Common Problems</a>
58 <li><a href="#links">Links</a>
59</ul>
60
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]61<div class="doc_author">
62 <p>Written by:
63 <a href="mailto:criswell@uiuc.edu">John Criswell</a>,
64 <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a>,
65 <a href="http://misha.brukman.net">Misha Brukman</a>,
66 <a href="http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve">Vikram Adve</a>, and
67 <a href="mailto:gshi1@uiuc.edu">Guochun Shi</a>.
68 </p>
69</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]70
71
72<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
73<div class="doc_section">
74 <a name="overview"><b>Overview</b></a>
75</div>
76<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
77
78<div class="doc_text">
79
80<p>Welcome to LLVM! In order to get started, you first need to know some
81basic information.</p>
82
83<p>First, LLVM comes in two pieces. The first piece is the LLVM suite. This
84contains all of the tools, libraries, and header files needed to use the low
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]85level virtual machine. It contains an assembler, disassembler, bitcode
86analyzer and bitcode optimizer. It also contains a test suite that can be
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]87used to test the LLVM tools and the GCC front end.</p>
88
89<p>The second piece is the GCC front end. This component provides a version of
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]90GCC that compiles C and C++ code into LLVM bitcode. Currently, the GCC front
Chris Lattner82ad9f12007-03-06 06:27:34 +0000[diff] [blame]91end uses the GCC parser to convert code to LLVM. Once
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]92compiled into LLVM bitcode, a program can be manipulated with the LLVM tools
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]93from the LLVM suite.</p>
94
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]95<p>
96There is a third, optional piece called llvm-test. It is a suite of programs
97with a testing harness that can be used to further test LLVM's functionality
98and performance.
99</p>
100
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]101</div>
102
103<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
104<div class="doc_section">
105 <a name="quickstart"><b>Getting Started Quickly (A Summary)</b></a>
106</div>
107<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
108
109<div class="doc_text">
110
111<p>Here's the short story for getting up and running quickly with LLVM:</p>
112
113<ol>
Reid Spencer9f547912004-11-08 00:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]114 <li>Read the documentation.</li>
115 <li>Read the documentation.</li>
116 <li>Remember that you were warned twice about reading the documentation.</li>
Tanya Lattnerff37adc2007-09-27 18:14:33 +0000[diff] [blame]117 <li>Install the llvm-gcc4.0 (or llvm-gcc4.2) front end if you intend to compile C or C++:
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]118 <ol>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]119 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-C-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
Tanya Lattnerf7b6be02006-11-20 06:04:46 +0000[diff] [blame]120 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-gcc.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]121 </li>
Tanya Lattnerff37adc2007-09-27 18:14:33 +0000[diff] [blame]122 <ul><li>If the binary extension is ".bz" use bunzip2 instead of gunzip.</li>
123 </ul>
Tanya Lattnerf7b6be02006-11-20 06:04:46 +0000[diff] [blame]124 <li>Add llvm-gcc's "bin" directory to your PATH variable.</li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]125 </ol></li>
126
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]127 <li>Get the LLVM Source Code
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]128 <ul>
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]129 <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">SVN</a>):
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]130 <ol>
131 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
John Criswell364cec42004-03-12 20:31:37 +0000[diff] [blame]132 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-<i>version</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]133 </ol></li>
134
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]135 </ul></li>
136
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]137 <li><b>[Optional]</b> Get the Test Suite Source Code
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]138 <ul>
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]139 <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">SVN</a>):
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]140 <ol>
141 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
142 <li><tt>cd llvm/projects</tt>
143 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-test-<i>version</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]144 </ol></li>
145
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]146 </ul></li>
147
148
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]149 <li>Configure the LLVM Build Environment
150 <ol>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]151 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-to-build-llvm</i></tt></li>
152 <li><tt><i>/path/to/llvm/</i>configure [options]</tt><br>
153 Some common options:
154
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]155 <ul>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]156 <li><tt>--prefix=<i>directory</i></tt>
157 <p>Specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of where you
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]158 want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed (default
159 <tt>/usr/local</tt>).</p></li>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]160 <li><tt>--with-llvmgccdir=<i>directory</i></tt>
161 <p>Optionally, specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of the
John Criswell838bce52005-05-09 16:39:27 +0000[diff] [blame]162 C/C++ front end installation to use with this LLVM configuration. If
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]163 not specified, the PATH will be searched.</p></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]164 <li><tt>--enable-spec2000=<i>directory</i></tt>
165 <p>Enable the SPEC2000 benchmarks for testing. The SPEC2000
166 benchmarks should be available in
167 <tt><i>directory</i></tt>.</p></li>
168 </ul>
169 </ol></li>
170
171 <li>Build the LLVM Suite:
172 <ol>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]173 <li><tt>gmake -k |&amp; tee gnumake.out
174 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# this is csh or tcsh syntax</tt></li>
Chris Lattner78ce3b82007-01-04 07:06:05 +0000[diff] [blame]175 <li>If you get an "internal compiler error (ICE)" or test failures, see
176 <a href="#brokengcc">below</a>.</li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]177 </ol>
178
179</ol>
180
Chris Lattnerfcd37252004-06-21 22:52:48 +0000[diff] [blame]181<p>Consult the <a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a> section for
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]182detailed information on configuring and compiling LLVM. See <a
183href="#environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a> for tips that simplify
184working with the GCC front end and LLVM tools. Go to <a href="#layout">Program
185Layout</a> to learn about the layout of the source code tree.</p>
186
187</div>
188
189<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
190<div class="doc_section">
191 <a name="requirements"><b>Requirements</b></a>
192</div>
193<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
194
195<div class="doc_text">
196
197<p>Before you begin to use the LLVM system, review the requirements given below.
198This may save you some trouble by knowing ahead of time what hardware and
199software you will need.</p>
200
201</div>
202
203<!-- ======================================================================= -->
204<div class="doc_subsection">
205 <a name="hardware"><b>Hardware</b></a>
206</div>
207
208<div class="doc_text">
209
210<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
211
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]212<table cellpadding="3" summary="Known LLVM platforms">
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]213<tr>
214 <th>OS</th>
215 <th>Arch</th>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]216 <th>Compilers</th>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]217</tr>
218<tr>
219 <td>Linux</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]220 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]221 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]222</tr>
223<tr>
224 <td>Solaris</td>
225 <td>V9 (Ultrasparc)</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]226 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]227</tr>
228<tr>
229 <td>FreeBSD</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]230 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]231 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]232</tr>
233<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]234 <td>MacOS X<sup><a href="#pf_2">2</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]235 <td>PowerPC</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]236 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]237</tr>
238<tr>
Tanya Lattner993b9802006-04-20 04:35:34 +0000[diff] [blame]239 <td>MacOS X<sup><a href="#pf_2">2</a></sup></td>
240 <td>x86</td>
241 <td>GCC</td>
242
243</tr>
244<tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]245 <td>Cygwin/Win32</td>
Chris Lattner6947e552006-07-21 00:06:27 +0000[diff] [blame]246 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_8">8</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer65e8f5b2004-12-23 19:39:54 +0000[diff] [blame]247 <td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]248</tr>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]249<tr>
Chris Lattner8ccb87f2005-02-09 20:43:48 +0000[diff] [blame]250 <td>MinGW/Win32</td>
Chris Lattner6947e552006-07-21 00:06:27 +0000[diff] [blame]251 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a>,<a href="#pf_8">8</a></sup></td>
Chris Lattner8ccb87f2005-02-09 20:43:48 +0000[diff] [blame]252 <td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
253</tr>
254<tr>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]255 <td>Linux</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]256 <td>amd64<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]257 <td>GCC</td>
258</tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]259</table>
260
261<p>LLVM has partial support for the following platforms:</p>
262
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]263<table summary="LLVM partial platform support">
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]264<tr>
265 <th>OS</th>
266 <th>Arch</th>
267 <th>Compilers</th>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]268</tr>
Misha Brukman00117692004-11-15 21:05:08 +0000[diff] [blame]269<tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]270 <td>Windows</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]271 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
272 <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]273<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]274 <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]275 <td>PowerPC</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]276 <td>GCC</td>
277</tr>
278<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]279 <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]280 <td>PowerPC</td>
281 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman00117692004-11-15 21:05:08 +0000[diff] [blame]282</tr>
John Criswell75162552005-05-09 16:49:59 +0000[diff] [blame]283
284<tr>
285 <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
286 <td>Alpha</td>
287 <td>GCC</td>
288</tr>
289<tr>
290 <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
291 <td>Itanium (IA-64)</td>
292 <td>GCC</td>
293</tr>
Duraid Madinae8714af2005-05-10 06:57:53 +0000[diff] [blame]294<tr>
295 <td>HP-UX<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
296 <td>Itanium (IA-64)</td>
297 <td>HP aCC</td>
298</tr>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]299</table>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]300
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]301<p><b>Notes:</b></p>
302
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]303<div class="doc_notes">
304<ol>
305<li><a name="pf_1">Code generation supported for Pentium processors and
306up</a></li>
307<li><a name="pf_2">Code generation supported for 32-bit ABI only</a></li>
308<li><a name="pf_3">No native code generation</a></li>
309<li><a name="pf_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools don't link</a></li>
310<li><a name="pf_5">The GCC-based C/C++ frontend does not build</a></li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]311<li><a name="pf_6">The port is done using the MSYS shell.</a>
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]312<a href="http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/">Download</a> and install
Chris Lattner6947e552006-07-21 00:06:27 +0000[diff] [blame]313bison (excl. M4.exe) and flex in that order. Build binutils-2.15 from source,
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]314if necessary. Bison &amp; flex can be also grabbed from GNUWin32 sf.net
315project.</li>
John Criswell75162552005-05-09 16:49:59 +0000[diff] [blame]316<li><a name="pf_7">Native code generation exists but is not complete.</a></li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]317<li><a name="pf_8">Binutils</a> up to post-2.17 has bug in bfd/cofflink.c
Chris Lattner6947e552006-07-21 00:06:27 +0000[diff] [blame]318 preventing LLVM from building correctly. Several workarounds have been
319 introduced into LLVM build system, but the bug can occur anytime in the
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]320 future. We highly recommend that you rebuild your current binutils with the
Chris Lattner6947e552006-07-21 00:06:27 +0000[diff] [blame]321 patch from <a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2659">
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]322 Binutils bugzilla</a>, if it wasn't already applied.</li>
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]323</ol>
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]324</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]325
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]326<p>Note that you will need about 1-3 GB of space for a full LLVM build in Debug
John Criswell8bfe6a72005-05-18 19:43:33 +0000[diff] [blame]327mode, depending on the system (it is so large because of all the debugging
328information and the fact that the libraries are statically linked into multiple
329tools). If you do not need many of the tools and you are space-conscious,
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]330you can disable them individually in <tt>llvm/tools/Makefile</tt>. The Release
331build requires considerably less space.</p>
332
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]333<p>The LLVM suite <i>may</i> compile on other platforms, but it is not
334guaranteed to do so. If compilation is successful, the LLVM utilities should be
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]335able to assemble, disassemble, analyze, and optimize LLVM bitcode. Code
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]336generation should work as well, although the generated native code may not work
337on your platform.</p>
338
339<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]340to work on another platform, you can download a copy of the source and <a
341href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">try to compile it</a> on your platform.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]342
343</div>
344
345<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]346<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]347<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]348 <p>Compiling LLVM requires that you have several software packages
349 installed. The table below lists those required packages. The Package column
350 is the usual name for the software package that LLVM depends on. The Version
351 column provides "known to work" versions of the package. The Notes column
352 describes how LLVM uses the package and provides other details.</p>
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]353 <table summary="Packages required to compile LLVM">
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]354 <tr><th>Package</th><th>Version</th><th>Notes</th></tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]355
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]356 <tr>
357 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make">GNU Make</a></td>
358 <td>3.79, 3.79.1</td>
359 <td>Makefile/build processor</td>
360 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]361
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]362 <tr>
363 <td><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">GCC</a></td>
364 <td>3.4.2</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]365 <td>C/C++ compiler<sup><a href="#sf1">1</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]366 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]367
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]368 <tr>
Chris Lattner2286cab2005-09-06 04:07:15 +0000[diff] [blame]369 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo">TeXinfo</a></td>
370 <td>4.5</td>
371 <td>For building the CFE</td>
372 </tr>
373
374 <tr>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]375 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/flex">Flex</a></td>
376 <td>2.5.4</td>
377 <td>LEX compiler</td>
378 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]379
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]380 <tr>
381 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html">Bison</a></td>
Jeff Cohen4896c5d2006-01-04 06:51:22 +0000[diff] [blame]382 <td>1.28, 1.35, 1.75, 1.875d, 2.0, or 2.1<br>(not 1.85 or 1.875)</td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]383 <td>YACC compiler</td>
384 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]385
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]386 <tr>
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]387 <td><a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html">SVN</a></td>
388 <td>&ge;1.3</td>
389 <td>Subversion access to LLVM<sup><a href="#sf2">2</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]390 </tr>
391
392 <tr>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]393 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/dejagnu">DejaGnu</a></td>
394 <td>1.4.2</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]395 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]396 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]397
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]398 <tr>
399 <td><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/">tcl</a></td>
400 <td>8.3, 8.4</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]401 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]402 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]403
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]404 <tr>
405 <td><a href="http://expect.nist.gov/">expect</a></td>
406 <td>5.38.0</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]407 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]408 </tr>
409
410 <tr>
411 <td><a href="http://www.perl.com/download.csp">perl</a></td>
Reid Spencer200d93b2004-12-09 17:55:37 +0000[diff] [blame]412 <td>&ge;5.6.0</td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]413 <td>Nightly tester, utilities</td>
414 </tr>
415
416 <tr>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]417 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/m4">GNU M4</a>
418 <td>1.4</td>
419 <td>Macro processor for configuration<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]420 </tr>
421
422 <tr>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]423 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf">GNU Autoconf</a></td>
424 <td>2.59</td>
425 <td>Configuration script builder<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
426 </tr>
427
428 <tr>
429 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake">GNU Automake</a></td>
430 <td>1.9.2</td>
431 <td>aclocal macro generator<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
432 </tr>
433
434 <tr>
435 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libtool">libtool</a></td>
436 <td>1.5.10</td>
437 <td>Shared library manager<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]438 </tr>
439
440 </table>
441
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]442 <p><b>Notes:</b></p>
443 <div class="doc_notes">
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]444 <ol>
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]445 <li><a name="sf1">Only the C and C++ languages are needed so there's no
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]446 need to build the other languages for LLVM's purposes.</a> See
447 <a href="#brokengcc">below</a> for specific version info.</li>
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]448 <li><a name="sf2">You only need Subversion if you intend to build from the
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]449 latest LLVM sources. If you're working from a release distribution, you
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]450 don't need Subversion.</a></li>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]451 <li><a name="sf3">Only needed if you want to run the automated test
452 suite in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.</a></li>
453 <li><a name="sf4">If you want to make changes to the configure scripts,
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]454 you will need GNU autoconf (2.59), and consequently, GNU M4 (version 1.4
Reid Spencer200d93b2004-12-09 17:55:37 +0000[diff] [blame]455 or higher). You will also need automake (1.9.2). We only use aclocal
456 from that package.</a></li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]457 </ol>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]458 </div>
459
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]460 <p>Additionally, your compilation host is expected to have the usual
461 plethora of Unix utilities. Specifically:</p>
462 <ul>
463 <li><b>ar</b> - archive library builder</li>
464 <li><b>bzip2*</b> - bzip2 command for distribution generation</li>
465 <li><b>bunzip2*</b> - bunzip2 command for distribution checking</li>
466 <li><b>chmod</b> - change permissions on a file</li>
John Criswellc4ef3f22004-12-08 16:55:27 +0000[diff] [blame]467 <li><b>cat</b> - output concatenation utility</li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]468 <li><b>cp</b> - copy files</li>
469 <li><b>date</b> - print the current date/time </li>
470 <li><b>echo</b> - print to standard output</li>
471 <li><b>egrep</b> - extended regular expression search utility</li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]472 <li><b>find</b> - find files/dirs in a file system</li>
473 <li><b>grep</b> - regular expression search utility</li>
474 <li><b>gzip*</b> - gzip command for distribution generation</li>
475 <li><b>gunzip*</b> - gunzip command for distribution checking</li>
476 <li><b>install</b> - install directories/files </li>
477 <li><b>mkdir</b> - create a directory</li>
478 <li><b>mv</b> - move (rename) files</li>
479 <li><b>ranlib</b> - symbol table builder for archive libraries</li>
Misha Brukman616bd052004-11-20 01:27:40 +0000[diff] [blame]480 <li><b>rm</b> - remove (delete) files and directories</li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]481 <li><b>sed</b> - stream editor for transforming output</li>
482 <li><b>sh</b> - Bourne shell for make build scripts</li>
483 <li><b>tar</b> - tape archive for distribution generation</li>
484 <li><b>test</b> - test things in file system</li>
485 <li><b>unzip*</b> - unzip command for distribution checking</li>
486 <li><b>zip*</b> - zip command for distribution generation</li>
487 </ul>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]488</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]489
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]490<!-- ======================================================================= -->
491<div class="doc_subsection">
Chris Lattnerdefb9fb2007-06-19 05:52:36 +0000[diff] [blame]492 <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]493</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]494
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]495<div class="doc_text">
496
497<p>LLVM is very demanding of the host C++ compiler, and as such tends to expose
498bugs in the compiler. In particular, several versions of GCC crash when trying
Chris Lattner6557f182006-06-16 17:20:33 +0000[diff] [blame]499to compile LLVM. We routinely use GCC 3.3.3, 3.4.0, and Apple 4.0.1
Chris Lattner36117ac2007-05-10 06:42:21 +0000[diff] [blame]500successfully with them (however, see important notes below). Other versions
501of GCC will probably work as well. GCC versions listed
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]502here are known to not work. If you are using one of these versions, please try
503to upgrade your GCC to something more recent. If you run into a problem with a
504version of GCC not listed here, please <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu">let
505us know</a>. Please use the "<tt>gcc -v</tt>" command to find out which version
506of GCC you are using.
507</p>
508
509<p><b>GCC versions prior to 3.0</b>: GCC 2.96.x and before had several
510problems in the STL that effectively prevent it from compiling LLVM.
511</p>
512
John Criswell294ba022004-11-23 22:06:24 +0000[diff] [blame]513<p><b>GCC 3.2.2</b>: This version of GCC fails to compile LLVM.</p>
514
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]515<p><b>GCC 3.3.2</b>: This version of GCC suffered from a <a
516href="http://gcc.gnu.org/PR13392">serious bug</a> which causes it to crash in
517the "<tt>convert_from_eh_region_ranges_1</tt>" GCC function.</p>
Chris Lattner25e7b162005-02-12 20:11:13 +0000[diff] [blame]518
Chris Lattner8e64f152005-02-13 22:20:49 +0000[diff] [blame]519<p><b>Cygwin GCC 3.3.3</b>: The version of GCC 3.3.3 commonly shipped with
520 Cygwin does not work. Please <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html#cygwin">upgrade
521 to a newer version</a> if possible.</p>
522<p><b>SuSE GCC 3.3.3</b>: The version of GCC 3.3.3 shipped with SuSE 9.1 (and
523 possibly others) does not compile LLVM correctly (it appears that exception
524 handling is broken in some cases). Please download the FSF 3.3.3 or upgrade
525 to a newer version of GCC.</p>
Bill Wendling18bf0d02007-07-16 08:52:56 +0000[diff] [blame]526<p><b>GCC 3.4.0 on linux/x86 (32-bit)</b>: GCC miscompiles portions of the
Chris Lattner36117ac2007-05-10 06:42:21 +0000[diff] [blame]527 code generator, causing an infinite loop in the llvm-gcc build when built
528 with optimizations enabled (i.e. a release build).</p>
Bill Wendling18bf0d02007-07-16 08:52:56 +0000[diff] [blame]529<p><b>GCC 3.4.2 on linux/x86 (32-bit)</b>: GCC miscompiles portions of the
Chris Lattner36117ac2007-05-10 06:42:21 +0000[diff] [blame]530 code generator at -O3, as with 3.4.0. However gcc 3.4.2 (unlike 3.4.0)
531 correctly compiles LLVM at -O2. A work around is to build release LLVM
532 builds with "make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 OPTIMIZE_OPTION=-O2 ..."</p>
Bill Wendling18bf0d02007-07-16 08:52:56 +0000[diff] [blame]533<p><b>GCC 3.4.x on X86-64/amd64</b>: GCC <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1056">
Chris Lattner77c2af62007-04-01 20:14:46 +0000[diff] [blame]534 miscompiles portions of LLVM</a>.</p>
Chris Lattner269f80c2007-11-01 04:20:16 +0000[diff] [blame]535<p><b>GCC 3.4.4 (CodeSourcery ARM 2005q3-2)</b>: this compiler miscompiles LLVM
536 when building with optimizations enabled. It appears to work with
537 "<tt>make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 OPTIMIZE_OPTION=-O1</tt>" or build a debug
538 build.</p>
Chris Lattnerf2b5e6e2005-05-15 22:26:45 +0000[diff] [blame]539<p><b>IA-64 GCC 4.0.0</b>: The IA-64 version of GCC 4.0.0 is known to
540 miscompile LLVM.</p>
Chris Lattnerdd197912006-06-16 19:53:39 +0000[diff] [blame]541<p><b>Apple Xcode 2.3</b>: GCC crashes when compiling LLVM at -O3 (which is the
542 default with ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1. To work around this, build with
543 "ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 OPTIMIZE_OPTION=-O2".</p>
Chris Lattnerc40eb5e2006-09-07 17:34:27 +0000[diff] [blame]544<p><b>GCC 4.1.1</b>: GCC fails to build LLVM with template concept check errors
545 compiling some files. At the time of this writing, GCC mainline (4.2)
546 did not share the problem.</p>
Chris Lattner78ce3b82007-01-04 07:06:05 +0000[diff] [blame]547<p><b>GCC 4.1.1 on X86-64/amd64</b>: GCC <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1063">
548 miscompiles portions of LLVM</a> when compiling llvm itself into 64-bit
549 code. LLVM will appear to mostly work but will be buggy, e.g. failing
550 portions of its testsuite.</p>
Reid Spencer72f92f02007-04-11 21:28:31 +0000[diff] [blame]551<p><b>GCC 4.1.2 on OpenSUSE</b>: Seg faults during libstdc++ build and on x86_64
552platforms compiling md5.c gets a mangled constant.</p>
Reid Spencer7a119082006-11-04 00:33:42 +0000[diff] [blame]553<p><b>GNU ld 2.16.X</b>. Some 2.16.X versions of the ld linker will produce very
554long warning messages complaining that some ".gnu.linkonce.t.*" symbol was
555defined in a discarded section. You can safely ignore these messages as they are
556erroneous and the linkage is correct. These messages disappear using ld
5572.17.</p>
Chris Lattnerdefb9fb2007-06-19 05:52:36 +0000[diff] [blame]558
559<p><b>GNU binutils 2.17</b>: Binutils 2.17 contains <a
560href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111">a bug</a> which
561causes huge link times (minutes instead of seconds) when building LLVM. We
562recommend upgrading to a newer version (2.17.50.0.4 or later).</p>
563
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]564</div>
565
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]566
567
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]568<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
569<div class="doc_section">
570 <a name="starting"><b>Getting Started with LLVM</b></a>
571</div>
572<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
573
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]574<div class="doc_text">
575
576<p>The remainder of this guide is meant to get you up and running with
577LLVM and to give you some basic information about the LLVM environment.</p>
578
579<p>The later sections of this guide describe the <a
580href="#layout">general layout</a> of the the LLVM source tree, a <a
581href="#tutorial">simple example</a> using the LLVM tool chain, and <a
582href="#links">links</a> to find more information about LLVM or to get
583help via e-mail.</p>
584</div>
585
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]586<!-- ======================================================================= -->
587<div class="doc_subsection">
588 <a name="terminology">Terminology and Notation</a>
589</div>
590
591<div class="doc_text">
592
593<p>Throughout this manual, the following names are used to denote paths
594specific to the local system and working environment. <i>These are not
595environment variables you need to set but just strings used in the rest
596of this document below</i>. In any of the examples below, simply replace
597each of these names with the appropriate pathname on your local system.
598All these paths are absolute:</p>
599
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]600<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]601 <dt>SRC_ROOT
602 <dd>
603 This is the top level directory of the LLVM source tree.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]604 <br><br>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]605
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]606 <dt>OBJ_ROOT
607 <dd>
608 This is the top level directory of the LLVM object tree (i.e. the
609 tree where object files and compiled programs will be placed. It
610 can be the same as SRC_ROOT).
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]611 <br><br>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]612
613 <dt>LLVMGCCDIR
614 <dd>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]615 This is where the LLVM GCC Front End is installed.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]616 <p>
617 For the pre-built GCC front end binaries, the LLVMGCCDIR is
Tanya Lattnerf7b6be02006-11-20 06:04:46 +0000[diff] [blame]618 <tt>llvm-gcc/<i>platform</i>/llvm-gcc</tt>.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]619</dl>
620
621</div>
622
623<!-- ======================================================================= -->
624<div class="doc_subsection">
625 <a name="environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a>
626</div>
627
628<div class="doc_text">
629
630<p>
Misha Brukman8f0cad12005-02-03 18:28:08 +0000[diff] [blame]631In order to compile and use LLVM, you may need to set some environment
632variables.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]633
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]634<dl>
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]635 <dt><tt>LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH</tt>=<tt>/path/to/your/bitcode/libs</tt></dt>
Misha Brukman8f0cad12005-02-03 18:28:08 +0000[diff] [blame]636 <dd>[Optional] This environment variable helps LLVM linking tools find the
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]637 locations of your bitcode libraries. It is provided only as a
Misha Brukman8f0cad12005-02-03 18:28:08 +0000[diff] [blame]638 convenience since you can specify the paths using the -L options of the
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]639 tools and the C/C++ front-end will automatically use the bitcode files
John Criswell8bfe6a72005-05-18 19:43:33 +0000[diff] [blame]640 installed in its
Misha Brukman8f0cad12005-02-03 18:28:08 +0000[diff] [blame]641 <tt>lib</tt> directory.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]642</dl>
643
644</div>
645
646<!-- ======================================================================= -->
647<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]648 <a name="unpack">Unpacking the LLVM Archives</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]649</div>
650
651<div class="doc_text">
652
653<p>
654If you have the LLVM distribution, you will need to unpack it before you
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]655can 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]656suite and the LLVM GCC front end compiled for your platform. There is an
657additional test suite that is optional. Each file is a TAR archive that is
658compressed with the gzip program.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]659</p>
660
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]661<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]662<dl>
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]663 <dt><tt>llvm-x.y.tar.gz</tt></dt>
664 <dd>Source release for the LLVM libraries and tools.<br/></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]665
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]666 <dt><tt>llvm-test-x.y.tar.gz</tt></dt>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]667 <dd>Source release for the LLVM test suite.</dd>
Misha Brukman8f9e6d62004-11-23 19:26:24 +0000[diff] [blame]668
Chris Lattner1ef81af2006-04-20 05:08:23 +0000[diff] [blame]669 <dt><tt>llvm-gcc4-x.y.source.tar.gz</tt></dt>
670 <dd>Source release of the llvm-gcc4 front end. See README.LLVM in the root
671 directory for build instructions.<br/></dd>
672
Tanya Lattnerf7b6be02006-11-20 06:04:46 +0000[diff] [blame]673 <dt><tt>llvm-gcc4-x.y-platform.tar.gz</tt></dt>
674 <dd>Binary release of the llvm-gcc4 front end for a specific platform.<br/></dd>
Chris Lattner1ef81af2006-04-20 05:08:23 +0000[diff] [blame]675
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]676</dl>
677
Jim Laskey6c3acb72006-07-31 21:37:55 +0000[diff] [blame]678<p>It is also possible to download the sources of the llvm-gcc4 front end from a
679read-only subversion mirror at
680svn://anonsvn.opensource.apple.com/svn/llvm/trunk. </p>
Jim Laskey3261f0b2006-06-16 23:20:21 +0000[diff] [blame]681
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]682</div>
683
684<!-- ======================================================================= -->
685<div class="doc_subsection">
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]686 <a name="checkout">Checkout LLVM from Subversion</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]687</div>
688
689<div class="doc_text">
690
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]691<p>If you have access to our Subversion repository, you can get a fresh copy of
692the entire source code. All you need to do is check it out from Subvresion as
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]693follows:</p>
694
695<ul>
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]696 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt></li>
Anton Korobeynikov98044e42007-06-29 20:56:49 +0000[diff] [blame]697 <li>Read-Only: <tt>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm</tt></li>
698 <li>Read-Write:<tt>svn co https://user@llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]699 llvm</tt></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]700</ul>
701
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]702
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]703<p>This will create an '<tt>llvm</tt>' directory in the current
704directory and fully populate it with the LLVM source code, Makefiles,
705test directories, and local copies of documentation files.</p>
706
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]707<p>If you want to get a specific release (as opposed to the most recent
Anton Korobeynikovd933fa92007-06-29 23:13:42 +0000[diff] [blame]708revision), you can checkout it from the '<tt>tags</tt>' directory (instead of
Anton Korobeynikovd724dc82007-06-30 00:00:57 +0000[diff] [blame]709'<tt>trunk</tt>'). The following releases are located in the following
710 subdirectories of the '<tt>tags</tt>' directory:</p>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]711
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]712<ul>
Tanya Lattner76385652007-09-28 22:50:54 +0000[diff] [blame]713<li>Release 2.1: <b>RELEASE_21</b></li>
Tanya Lattner1dcadec2007-05-22 06:06:22 +0000[diff] [blame]714<li>Release 2.0: <b>RELEASE_20</b></li>
Tanya Lattner134693a2006-11-20 06:07:10 +0000[diff] [blame]715<li>Release 1.9: <b>RELEASE_19</b></li>
Tanya Lattnerf7b6be02006-11-20 06:04:46 +0000[diff] [blame]716<li>Release 1.8: <b>RELEASE_18</b></li>
Tanya Lattner993b9802006-04-20 04:35:34 +0000[diff] [blame]717<li>Release 1.7: <b>RELEASE_17</b></li>
John Criswellc0c186d2005-11-08 21:11:33 +0000[diff] [blame]718<li>Release 1.6: <b>RELEASE_16</b></li>
John Criswell75162552005-05-09 16:49:59 +0000[diff] [blame]719<li>Release 1.5: <b>RELEASE_15</b></li>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]720<li>Release 1.4: <b>RELEASE_14</b></li>
John Criswell18b74642004-08-16 14:51:33 +0000[diff] [blame]721<li>Release 1.3: <b>RELEASE_13</b></li>
Misha Brukmanb9be2bf2004-05-12 19:25:59 +0000[diff] [blame]722<li>Release 1.2: <b>RELEASE_12</b></li>
723<li>Release 1.1: <b>RELEASE_11</b></li>
724<li>Release 1.0: <b>RELEASE_1</b></li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]725</ul>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]726
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]727<p>If you would like to get the LLVM test suite (a separate package as of 1.4),
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]728you get it from the Subversion repository:</p>
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]729
730<div class="doc_code">
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]731<pre>
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]732% cd llvm/projects
733% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk llvm-test
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]734</pre>
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]735</div>
736
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]737<p>By placing it in the <tt>llvm/projects</tt>, it will be automatically
John Criswellc4ef3f22004-12-08 16:55:27 +0000[diff] [blame]738configured by the LLVM configure script as well as automatically updated when
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]739you run <tt>svn update</tt>.</p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]740
Chris Lattner82ad9f12007-03-06 06:27:34 +0000[diff] [blame]741<p>If you would like to get the GCC front end source code, you can also get it
742and build it yourself. Please follow <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">these
743instructions</a> to successfully get and build the LLVM GCC front-end.</p>
Chris Lattner604fdc12004-06-28 17:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]744
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]745</div>
746
747<!-- ======================================================================= -->
748<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]749 <a name="installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]750</div>
751
752<div class="doc_text">
753
Chris Lattnerbcb38cf2007-02-14 07:33:00 +0000[diff] [blame]754<p>Before configuring and compiling the LLVM suite, you can optionally extract the
755LLVM GCC front end from the binary distribution. It is used for running the
756llvm-test testsuite and for compiling C/C++ programs. Note that you can optionally
757<a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">build llvm-gcc yourself</a> after building the
758main LLVM repository.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]759
760<p>To install the GCC front end, do the following:</p>
761
762<ol>
763 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
Tanya Lattnerf7b6be02006-11-20 06:04:46 +0000[diff] [blame]764 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvmgcc-<i>version</i>.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]765 -</tt></li>
766</ol>
767
Chris Lattnerbcb38cf2007-02-14 07:33:00 +0000[diff] [blame]768<p>Once the binary is uncompressed, you should add a symlink for llvm-gcc and
769llvm-g++ to some directory in your path. When you configure LLVM, it will
770automatically detect llvm-gcc's presence (if it is in your path) enabling its
771use in llvm-test. Note that you can always build or install llvm-gcc at any
772pointer after building the main LLVM repository: just reconfigure llvm and
773llvm-test will pick it up.
774</p>
775
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]776<p>The binary versions of the GCC front end may not suit all of your needs. For
777example, the binary distribution may include an old version of a system header
778file, not "fix" a header file that needs to be fixed for GCC, or it may be
779linked with libraries not available on your system.</p>
780
781<p>In cases like these, you may want to try <a
782href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">building the GCC front end from source.</a> This is
Chris Lattnerf76e7bb2007-02-14 07:34:22 +0000[diff] [blame]783much easier now than it was in the past.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]784
785</div>
786
787<!-- ======================================================================= -->
788<div class="doc_subsection">
789 <a name="config">Local LLVM Configuration</a>
790</div>
791
792<div class="doc_text">
793
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]794 <p>Once checked out from the Subversion repository, the LLVM suite source
795 code must be
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]796configured via the <tt>configure</tt> script. This script sets variables in the
797various <tt>*.in</tt> files, most notably <tt>llvm/Makefile.config</tt> and
798<tt>llvm/include/Config/config.h</tt>. It also populates <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> with
799the Makefiles needed to begin building LLVM.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]800
801<p>The following environment variables are used by the <tt>configure</tt>
802script to configure the build system:</p>
803
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]804<table summary="LLVM configure script environment variables">
Reid Spencerd3f876c2004-11-01 08:19:36 +0000[diff] [blame]805 <tr><th>Variable</th><th>Purpose</th></tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]806 <tr>
807 <td>CC</td>
808 <td>Tells <tt>configure</tt> which C compiler to use. By default,
809 <tt>configure</tt> will look for the first GCC C compiler in
810 <tt>PATH</tt>. Use this variable to override
811 <tt>configure</tt>'s default behavior.</td>
812 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]813 <tr>
814 <td>CXX</td>
815 <td>Tells <tt>configure</tt> which C++ compiler to use. By default,
816 <tt>configure</tt> will look for the first GCC C++ compiler in
817 <tt>PATH</tt>. Use this variable to override
818 <tt>configure</tt>'s default behavior.</td>
819 </tr>
820</table>
821
822<p>The following options can be used to set or enable LLVM specific options:</p>
823
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]824<dl>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]825 <dt><i>--with-llvmgccdir</i></dt>
826 <dd>Path to the LLVM C/C++ FrontEnd to be used with this LLVM configuration.
827 The value of this option should specify the full pathname of the C/C++ Front
828 End to be used. If this option is not provided, the PATH will be searched for
829 a program named <i>llvm-gcc</i> and the C/C++ FrontEnd install directory will
830 be inferred from the path found. If the option is not given, and no llvm-gcc
831 can be found in the path then a warning will be produced by
832 <tt>configure</tt> indicating this situation. LLVM may still be built with
833 the <tt>tools-only</tt> target but attempting to build the runtime libraries
834 will fail as these libraries require llvm-gcc and llvm-g++. See
835 <a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a> for details on installing
836 the C/C++ Front End. See
837 <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">Bootstrapping the LLVM C/C++ Front-End</a>
838 for details on building the C/C++ Front End.</dd>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]839 <dt><i>--with-tclinclude</i></dt>
John Criswell8bfe6a72005-05-18 19:43:33 +0000[diff] [blame]840 <dd>Path to the tcl include directory under which <tt>tclsh</tt> can be
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]841 found. Use this if you have multiple tcl installations on your machine and you
842 want to use a specific one (8.x) for LLVM. LLVM only uses tcl for running the
843 dejagnu based test suite in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. If you don't specify this
John Criswell8bfe6a72005-05-18 19:43:33 +0000[diff] [blame]844 option, the LLVM configure script will search for the tcl 8.4 and 8.3
845 releases.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]846 <br><br>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]847 </dd>
848 <dt><i>--enable-optimized</i></dt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]849 <dd>
850 Enables optimized compilation by default (debugging symbols are removed
851 and GCC optimization flags are enabled). The default is to use an
852 unoptimized build (also known as a debug build).
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]853 <br><br>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]854 </dd>
Reid Spencer9d57b4d2005-12-21 03:46:45 +0000[diff] [blame]855 <dt><i>--enable-debug-runtime</i></dt>
856 <dd>
857 Enables debug symbols in the runtime libraries. The default is to strip
858 debug symbols from the runtime libraries.
859 </dd>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]860 <dt><i>--enable-jit</i></dt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]861 <dd>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]862 Compile the Just In Time (JIT) compiler functionality. This is not
863 available
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]864 on all platforms. The default is dependent on platform, so it is best
865 to explicitly enable it if you want it.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]866 <br><br>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]867 </dd>
Reid Spencer2dedcf52005-04-22 17:58:03 +0000[diff] [blame]868 <dt><i>--enable-targets=</i><tt>target-option</tt></dt>
869 <dd>Controls which targets will be built and linked into llc. The default
870 value for <tt>target_options</tt> is "all" which builds and links all
871 available targets. The value "host-only" can be specified to build only a
872 native compiler (no cross-compiler targets available). The "native" target is
873 selected as the target of the build host. You can also specify a comma
874 separated list of target names that you want available in llc. The target
John Criswell8bfe6a72005-05-18 19:43:33 +0000[diff] [blame]875 names use all lower case. The current set of targets is: <br/>
Reid Spencer2dedcf52005-04-22 17:58:03 +0000[diff] [blame]876 <tt>alpha, ia64, powerpc, skeleton, sparc, x86</tt>.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]877 <br><br></dd>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]878 <dt><i>--enable-doxygen</i></dt>
879 <dd>Look for the doxygen program and enable construction of doxygen based
880 documentation from the source code. This is disabled by default because
881 generating the documentation can take a long time and producess 100s of
882 megabytes of output.</dd>
Anton Korobeynikov8cea37b2007-01-23 12:35:46 +0000[diff] [blame]883 <dt><i>--with-udis86</i></dt>
884 <dd>LLVM can use external disassembler library for various purposes (now it's
885 used only for examining code produced by JIT). This option will enable usage
886 of <a href="http://udis86.sourceforge.net/">udis86</a> x86 (both 32 and 64
887 bits) disassembler library.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]888</dl>
889
890<p>To configure LLVM, follow these steps:</p>
891
892<ol>
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]893 <li><p>Change directory into the object root directory:</p>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]894
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]895 <div class="doc_code"><pre>% cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></pre></div></li>
896
897 <li><p>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script located in the LLVM source
898 tree:</p>
899
900 <div class="doc_code">
901 <pre>% <i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure --prefix=/install/path [other options]</pre>
902 </div></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]903</ol>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]904
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]905</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]906
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]907<!-- ======================================================================= -->
908<div class="doc_subsection">
909 <a name="compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a>
910</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]911
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]912<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]913
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]914<p>Once you have configured LLVM, you can build it. There are three types of
915builds:</p>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]916
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]917<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]918 <dt>Debug Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]919 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]920 These builds are the default when one types <tt>gmake</tt> (unless the
921 <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> option was used during configuration). The
922 build system will compile the tools and libraries with debugging
923 information.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]924 <br><br>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]925
926 <dt>Release (Optimized) Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]927 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]928 These builds are enabled with the <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> option to
929 <tt>configure</tt> or by specifying <tt>ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1</tt> on the
930 <tt>gmake</tt> command line. For these builds, the build system will
931 compile the tools and libraries with GCC optimizations enabled and strip
932 debugging information from the libraries and executables it generates.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]933 <br><br>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]934
935 <dt>Profile Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]936 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]937 These builds are for use with profiling. They compile profiling
938 information into the code for use with programs like <tt>gprof</tt>.
939 Profile builds must be started by specifying <tt>ENABLE_PROFILING=1</tt>
940 on the <tt>gmake</tt> command line.
941</dl>
John Criswell7a73b802003-06-30 21:59:07 +0000[diff] [blame]942
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]943<p>Once you have LLVM configured, you can build it by entering the
944<i>OBJ_ROOT</i> directory and issuing the following command:</p>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]945
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]946<div class="doc_code"><pre>% gmake</pre></div>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]947
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]948<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]949are using a version of GCC that is known not to compile LLVM.</p>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]950
951<p>
952If you have multiple processors in your machine, you may wish to use some of
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]953the parallel build options provided by GNU Make. For example, you could use the
954command:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]955
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]956<div class="doc_code"><pre>% gmake -j2</pre></div>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]957
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]958<p>There are several special targets which are useful when working with the LLVM
959source code:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]960
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]961<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]962 <dt><tt>gmake clean</tt>
963 <dd>
964 Removes all files generated by the build. This includes object files,
965 generated C/C++ files, libraries, and executables.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]966 <br><br>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]967
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]968 <dt><tt>gmake dist-clean</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]969 <dd>
Misha Brukmanad38e962004-08-21 23:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]970 Removes everything that <tt>gmake clean</tt> does, but also removes files
971 generated by <tt>configure</tt>. It attempts to return the source tree to the
972 original state in which it was shipped.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]973 <br><br>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]974
Misha Brukmane51c3562004-08-23 20:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]975 <dt><tt>gmake install</tt>
976 <dd>
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]977 Installs LLVM header files, libraries, tools, and documentation in a
978 hierarchy
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]979 under $PREFIX, specified with <tt>./configure --prefix=[dir]</tt>, which
980 defaults to <tt>/usr/local</tt>.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]981 <br><br>
982
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]983 <dt><tt>gmake -C runtime install-bytecode</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]984 <dd>
Reid Spencer7863c402004-11-11 07:30:27 +0000[diff] [blame]985 Assuming you built LLVM into $OBJDIR, when this command is run, it will
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]986 install bitcode libraries into the GCC front end's bitcode library
987 directory. If you need to update your bitcode libraries,
Misha Brukmanad38e962004-08-21 23:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]988 this is the target to use once you've built them.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]989 <br><br>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]990</dl>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]991
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]992<p>Please see the <a href="MakefileGuide.html">Makefile Guide</a> for further
993details on these <tt>make</tt> targets and descriptions of other targets
994available.</p>
995
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]996<p>It is also possible to override default values from <tt>configure</tt> by
997declaring variables on the command line. The following are some examples:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]998
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]999<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1000 <dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1</tt>
1001 <dd>
1002 Perform a Release (Optimized) build.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1003 <br><br>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1004
Reid Spencer004ba032006-04-09 23:45:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1005 <dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 DISABLE_ASSERTIONS=1</tt>
Chris Lattnerd4651262006-03-21 01:10:57 +0000[diff] [blame]1006 <dd>
Reid Spencer004ba032006-04-09 23:45:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1007 Perform a Release (Optimized) build without assertions enabled.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1008 <br><br>
Chris Lattnerd4651262006-03-21 01:10:57 +0000[diff] [blame]1009
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1010 <dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_PROFILING=1</tt>
1011 <dd>
1012 Perform a Profiling build.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1013 <br><br>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1014
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1015 <dt><tt>gmake VERBOSE=1</tt>
1016 <dd>
1017 Print what <tt>gmake</tt> is doing on standard output.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1018 <br><br>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1019
1020 <dt><tt>gmake TOOL_VERBOSE=1</tt></dt>
1021 <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]1022 the standard output. This also implies <tt>VERBOSE=1</tt>.
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1023 <br><br></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1024</dl>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1025
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1026<p>Every directory in the LLVM object tree includes a <tt>Makefile</tt> to build
1027it and any subdirectories that it contains. Entering any directory inside the
1028LLVM object tree and typing <tt>gmake</tt> should rebuild anything in or below
1029that directory that is out of date.</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1030
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1031</div>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1032
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1033<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1034<div class="doc_subsection">
Reid Spencerd30a9712006-07-27 06:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1035 <a name="cross-compile">Cross-Compiling LLVM</a>
Reid Spencer17850ef2006-07-27 05:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1036</div>
1037
1038<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencerd30a9712006-07-27 06:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1039 <p>It is possible to cross-compile LLVM. That is, you can create LLVM
1040 executables and libraries for a platform different than the one one which you
1041 are compiling. To do this, a few additional steps are
1042 required. <sup><a href="#ccn_1">1</a></sup> To cross-compile LLVM, use
Reid Spencer17850ef2006-07-27 05:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1043 these instructions:</p>
1044 <ol>
Reid Spencerd30a9712006-07-27 06:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1045 <li>Configure and build LLVM as a native compiler. You will need
Reid Spencer17850ef2006-07-27 05:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1046 just <tt>TableGen</tt> from that build.
1047 <ul>
1048 <li>If you have <tt>$LLVM_OBJ_ROOT=$LLVM_SRC_ROOT</tt> just execute
1049 <tt>make -C utils/TableGen</tt> after configuring.</li>
1050 <li>Otherwise you will need to monitor building process and terminate
1051 it just after <tt>TableGen</tt> was built.</li>
1052 </ul>
1053 </li>
1054 <li>Copy the TableGen binary to somewhere safe (out of your build tree).
1055 </li>
Reid Spencerd30a9712006-07-27 06:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1056 <li>Configure LLVM to build with a cross-compiler. To do this, supply the
Reid Spencer17850ef2006-07-27 05:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1057 configure script with <tt>--build</tt> and <tt>--host</tt> options that
Reid Spencerd30a9712006-07-27 06:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1058 are different. The values of these options must be legal target triples
1059 that your GCC compiler supports.</li>
Reid Spencer17850ef2006-07-27 05:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1060 <li>Put the saved <tt>TableGen</tt> executable into the
1061 into <tt>$LLVM_OBJ_ROOT/{BUILD_TYPE}/bin</tt> directory (e.g. into
1062 <tt>.../Release/bin</tt> for a Release build).</li>
1063 <li>Build LLVM as usual.</li>
1064 </ol>
Reid Spencerd30a9712006-07-27 06:41:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1065 <p>The result of such a build will produce executables that are not executable
1066 on your build host (--build option) but can be executed on your compile host
1067 (--host option).</p>
Reid Spencer17850ef2006-07-27 05:43:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1068 <p><b>Notes:</b></p>
1069 <div class="doc_notes">
1070 <ol>
1071 <li><a name="ccn_1">Cross-compiling</a> was tested only with Linux as
1072 build platform and Windows as host using mingw32 cross-compiler. Other
1073 combinations have not been tested.</li>
1074 </ol>
1075 </div>
1076</div>
1077
1078<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1079<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1080 <a name="objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a>
1081</div>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1082
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1083<div class="doc_text">
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1084
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1085<p>The LLVM build system is capable of sharing a single LLVM source tree among
1086several LLVM builds. Hence, it is possible to build LLVM for several different
1087platforms or configurations using the same source tree.</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1088
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1089<p>This is accomplished in the typical autoconf manner:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1090
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1091<ul>
1092 <li><p>Change directory to where the LLVM object files should live:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1093
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1094 <div class="doc_code"><pre>% cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></pre></div></li>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1095
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1096 <li><p>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script found in the LLVM source
1097 directory:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1098
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1099 <div class="doc_code"><pre>% <i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure</pre></div></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1100</ul>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1101
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1102<p>The LLVM build will place files underneath <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> in directories
1103named after the build type:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1104
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1105<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1106 <dt>Debug Builds
1107 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1108 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1109 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1110 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Debug/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1111 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1112 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Debug/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1113 </dl>
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1114 <br><br>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1115
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1116 <dt>Release Builds
1117 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1118 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1119 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1120 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Release/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1121 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1122 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Release/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1123 </dl>
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1124 <br><br>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1125
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1126 <dt>Profile Builds
1127 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1128 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1129 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1130 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Profile/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1131 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1132 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Profile/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1133 </dl>
1134</dl>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1135
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1136</div>
Chris Lattner7fe7f812002-07-24 19:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1137
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1138<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1139<div class="doc_subsection">
1140 <a name="optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a>
1141</div>
1142
1143<div class="doc_text">
1144
1145<p>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1146If you're running on a Linux system that supports the "<a
Bill Wendling22e37c32007-07-16 08:46:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1147href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/linux/binfmt_misc.html">binfmt_misc</a>"
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1148module, and you have root access on the system, you can set your system up to
Bill Wendling22e37c32007-07-16 08:46:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1149execute LLVM bitcode files directly. To do this, use commands like this (the
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1150first command may not be required if you are already using the module):</p>
1151
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1152<div class="doc_code">
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1153<pre>
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1154$ mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
1155$ echo ':llvm:M::llvm::/path/to/lli:' &gt; /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
1156$ chmod u+x hello.bc (if needed)
1157$ ./hello.bc
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1158</pre>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1159</div>
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1160
1161<p>
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1162This allows you to execute LLVM bitcode files directly. Thanks to Jack
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1163Cummings for pointing this out!
1164</p>
1165
1166</div>
1167
1168
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1169<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1170<div class="doc_section">
1171 <a name="layout"><b>Program Layout</b></a>
1172</div>
1173<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1174
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1175<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1176
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1177<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]1178href="http://www.doxygen.org">doxygen</a> documentation available at <tt><a
Reid Spencer05fe4b02006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1179href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/">http://llvm.org/doxygen/</a></tt>.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1180The following is a brief introduction to code layout:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1181
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1182</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1183
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1184<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1185<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a></div>
1186<div class="doc_text">
1187 <p>This directory contains some simple examples of how to use the LLVM IR and
1188 JIT.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1189</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1190
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1191<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1192<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="include"><tt>llvm/include</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1193<div class="doc_text">
1194
1195<p>This directory contains public header files exported from the LLVM
1196library. The three main subdirectories of this directory are:</p>
1197
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1198<dl>
1199 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm</b></tt></dt>
1200 <dd>This directory contains all of the LLVM specific header files. This
1201 directory also has subdirectories for different portions of LLVM:
1202 <tt>Analysis</tt>, <tt>CodeGen</tt>, <tt>Target</tt>, <tt>Transforms</tt>,
1203 etc...</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1204
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1205 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm/Support</b></tt></dt>
1206 <dd>This directory contains generic support libraries that are provided with
1207 LLVM but not necessarily specific to LLVM. For example, some C++ STL utilities
1208 and a Command Line option processing library store their header files here.
1209 </dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1210
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1211 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm/Config</b></tt></dt>
1212 <dd>This directory contains header files configured by the <tt>configure</tt>
1213 script. They wrap "standard" UNIX and C header files. Source code can
1214 include these header files which automatically take care of the conditional
1215 #includes that the <tt>configure</tt> script generates.</dd>
1216</dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1217</div>
1218
1219<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1220<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="lib"><tt>llvm/lib</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1221<div class="doc_text">
1222
1223<p>This directory contains most of the source files of the LLVM system. In LLVM,
1224almost all code exists in libraries, making it very easy to share code among the
1225different <a href="#tools">tools</a>.</p>
1226
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1227<dl>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1228 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/VMCore/</b></tt></dt>
1229 <dd> This directory holds the core LLVM source files that implement core
1230 classes like Instruction and BasicBlock.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1231
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1232 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/AsmParser/</b></tt></dt>
1233 <dd>This directory holds the source code for the LLVM assembly language parser
1234 library.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1235
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1236 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/BitCode/</b></tt></dt>
1237 <dd>This directory holds code for reading and write LLVM bitcode.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1238
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1239 <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]1240 different program analyses, such as Dominator Information, Call Graphs,
1241 Induction Variables, Interval Identification, Natural Loop Identification,
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1242 etc.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1243
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1244 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Transforms/</b></tt></dt>
1245 <dd> This directory contains the source code for the LLVM to LLVM program
1246 transformations, such as Aggressive Dead Code Elimination, Sparse Conditional
1247 Constant Propagation, Inlining, Loop Invariant Code Motion, Dead Global
1248 Elimination, and many others.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1249
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1250 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Target/</b></tt></dt>
1251 <dd> This directory contains files that describe various target architectures
Chris Lattner2a607032006-04-20 17:42:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1252 for code generation. For example, the <tt>llvm/lib/Target/X86</tt>
1253 directory holds the X86 machine description while
John Criswell8bfe6a72005-05-18 19:43:33 +0000[diff] [blame]1254 <tt>llvm/lib/Target/CBackend</tt> implements the LLVM-to-C converter.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1255
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1256 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/CodeGen/</b></tt></dt>
1257 <dd> This directory contains the major parts of the code generator: Instruction
1258 Selector, Instruction Scheduling, and Register Allocation.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1259
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1260 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Debugger/</b></tt></dt>
1261 <dd> This directory contains the source level debugger library that makes
1262 it possible to instrument LLVM programs so that a debugger could identify
1263 source code locations at which the program is executing.</dd>
1264
1265 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/</b></tt></dt>
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1266 <dd> This directory contains libraries for executing LLVM bitcode directly
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1267 at runtime in both interpreted and JIT compiled fashions.</dd>
1268
1269 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Support/</b></tt></dt>
1270 <dd> This directory contains the source code that corresponds to the header
1271 files located in <tt>llvm/include/Support/</tt>.</dd>
1272
1273 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/System/</b></tt></dt>
1274 <dd>This directory contains the operating system abstraction layer that
1275 shields LLVM from platform-specific coding.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1276</dl>
John Criswell7a73b802003-06-30 21:59:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1277
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1278</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1279
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1280<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1281<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="projects"><tt>llvm/projects</tt></a></div>
1282<div class="doc_text">
1283 <p>This directory contains projects that are not strictly part of LLVM but are
1284 shipped with LLVM. This is also the directory where you should create your own
1285 LLVM-based projects. See <tt>llvm/projects/sample</tt> for an example of how
1286 to set up your own project. See <tt>llvm/projects/Stacker</tt> for a fully
1287 functional example of a compiler front end.</p>
1288</div>
1289
1290<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1291<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1292<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1293
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1294<p>This directory contains libraries which are compiled into LLVM bitcode and
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1295used when linking programs with the GCC front end. Most of these libraries are
1296skeleton versions of real libraries; for example, libc is a stripped down
1297version of glibc.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1298
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1299<p>Unlike the rest of the LLVM suite, this directory needs the LLVM GCC front
1300end to compile.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1301
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1302</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1303
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1304<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1305<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="test"><tt>llvm/test</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1306<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1307 <p>This directory contains feature and regression tests and other basic sanity
1308 checks on the LLVM infrastructure. These are intended to run quickly and cover
1309 a lot of territory without being exhaustive.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1310</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1311
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1312<!-- ======================================================================= -->
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1313<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="llvmtest"><tt>test-suite</tt></a></div>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1314<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1315 <p>This is not a directory in the normal llvm module; it is a separate
1316 Subversion
1317 module that must be checked out (usually to <tt>projects/test-suite</tt>).
1318 This
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]1319 module contains a comprehensive correctness, performance, and benchmarking
1320 test
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1321 suite for LLVM. It is a separate Subversion module because not every LLVM
1322 user is
John Criswell838bce52005-05-09 16:39:27 +0000[diff] [blame]1323 interested in downloading or building such a comprehensive test suite. For
1324 further details on this test suite, please see the
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1325 <a href="TestingGuide.html">Testing Guide</a> document.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1326</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1327
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1328<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1329<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="tools"><tt>llvm/tools</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1330<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1331
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1332<p>The <b>tools</b> directory contains the executables built out of the
1333libraries above, which form the main part of the user interface. You can
1334always get help for a tool by typing <tt>tool_name --help</tt>. The
Misha Brukmane12215f2004-11-15 23:20:51 +0000[diff] [blame]1335following is a brief introduction to the most important tools. More detailed
1336information is in the <a href="CommandGuide/index.html">Command Guide</a>.</p>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1337
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1338<dl>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1339
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1340 <dt><tt><b>bugpoint</b></tt></dt>
1341 <dd><tt>bugpoint</tt> is used to debug
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1342 optimization passes or code generation backends by narrowing down the
1343 given test case to the minimum number of passes and/or instructions that
1344 still cause a problem, whether it is a crash or miscompilation. See <a
1345 href="HowToSubmitABug.html">HowToSubmitABug.html</a> for more information
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1346 on using <tt>bugpoint</tt>.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1347
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1348 <dt><tt><b>llvmc</b></tt></dt>
1349 <dd>The LLVM Compiler Driver. This program can
1350 be configured to utilize both LLVM and non-LLVM compilation tools to enable
1351 pre-processing, translation, optimization, assembly, and linking of programs
1352 all from one command line. <tt>llvmc</tt> also takes care of processing the
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1353 dependent libraries found in bitcode. This reduces the need to get the
Reid Spencer079e9452004-12-08 18:00:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1354 traditional <tt>-l&lt;name&gt;</tt> options right on the command line. Please
John Criswell8bfe6a72005-05-18 19:43:33 +0000[diff] [blame]1355 note that this tool, while functional, is still experimental and not feature
1356 complete.</dd>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1357
1358 <dt><tt><b>llvm-ar</b></tt></dt>
1359 <dd>The archiver produces an archive containing
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1360 the given LLVM bitcode files, optionally with an index for faster
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1361 lookup.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1362
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1363 <dt><tt><b>llvm-as</b></tt></dt>
1364 <dd>The assembler transforms the human readable LLVM assembly to LLVM
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1365 bitcode.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1366
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1367 <dt><tt><b>llvm-dis</b></tt></dt>
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1368 <dd>The disassembler transforms the LLVM bitcode to human readable
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1369 LLVM assembly.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1370
Reid Spencer079e9452004-12-08 18:00:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1371 <dt><tt><b>llvm-ld</b></tt></dt>
Reid Spencer434262a2007-02-09 15:59:08 +0000[diff] [blame]1372 <dd><tt>llvm-ld</tt> is a general purpose and extensible linker for LLVM.
1373 This is the linker invoked by <tt>llvmc</tt>. It performsn standard link time
1374 optimizations and allows optimization modules to be loaded and run so that
1375 language specific optimizations can be applied at link time.</dd>
Reid Spencer079e9452004-12-08 18:00:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1376
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1377 <dt><tt><b>llvm-link</b></tt></dt>
1378 <dd><tt>llvm-link</tt>, not surprisingly, links multiple LLVM modules into
1379 a single program.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1380
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1381 <dt><tt><b>lli</b></tt></dt>
1382 <dd><tt>lli</tt> is the LLVM interpreter, which
Nick Lewycky64270d52007-12-03 01:58:01 +0000[diff] [blame^]1383 can directly execute LLVM bitcode (although very slowly...). For architectures
1384 that support it (currently x86, Sparc, and PowerPC), by default, <tt>lli</tt>
1385 will function as a Just-In-Time compiler (if the functionality was compiled
1386 in), and will execute the code <i>much</i> faster than the interpreter.</dd>
Misha Brukmanef0ad412003-10-06 19:23:34 +0000[diff] [blame]1387
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1388 <dt><tt><b>llc</b></tt></dt>
1389 <dd> <tt>llc</tt> is the LLVM backend compiler, which
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1390 translates LLVM bitcode to a native code assembly file or to C code (with
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1391 the -march=c option).</dd>
Misha Brukmanef0ad412003-10-06 19:23:34 +0000[diff] [blame]1392
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1393 <dt><tt><b>llvm-gcc</b></tt></dt>
Reid Spencer434262a2007-02-09 15:59:08 +0000[diff] [blame]1394 <dd><tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is a GCC-based C frontend that has been retargeted to
1395 use LLVM as its backend instead of GCC's RTL backend. It can also emit LLVM
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1396 bitcode or assembly (with the <tt>-emit-llvm</tt> option) instead of the
Reid Spencer434262a2007-02-09 15:59:08 +0000[diff] [blame]1397 usual machine code output. It works just like any other GCC compiler,
1398 taking the typical <tt>-c, -S, -E, -o</tt> options that are typically used.
1399 Additionally, the the source code for <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is available as a
John Criswell9c29bfb2007-06-29 19:12:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1400 separate Subversion module.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1401
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1402 <dt><tt><b>opt</b></tt></dt>
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1403 <dd><tt>opt</tt> reads LLVM bitcode, applies a series of LLVM to LLVM
Reid Spencer84f82f72006-08-28 00:34:19 +0000[diff] [blame]1404 transformations (which are specified on the command line), and then outputs
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1405 the resultant bitcode. The '<tt>opt --help</tt>' command is a good way to
Reid Spencer84f82f72006-08-28 00:34:19 +0000[diff] [blame]1406 get a list of the program transformations available in LLVM.<br/>
1407 <dd><tt>opt</tt> can also be used to run a specific analysis on an input
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1408 LLVM bitcode file and print out the results. It is primarily useful for
Reid Spencer84f82f72006-08-28 00:34:19 +0000[diff] [blame]1409 debugging analyses, or familiarizing yourself with what an analysis does.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1410</dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1411</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1412
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1413<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1414<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="utils"><tt>llvm/utils</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1415<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1416
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1417<p>This directory contains utilities for working with LLVM source code, and some
1418of the utilities are actually required as part of the build process because they
1419are code generators for parts of LLVM infrastructure.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1420
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1421<dl>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1422 <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]1423 that finds differences between code that LLC generates and code that LLI
1424 generates. This is a useful tool if you are debugging one of them,
1425 assuming that the other generates correct output. For the full user
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1426 manual, run <tt>`perldoc codegen-diff'</tt>.<br><br>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1427
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1428 <dt><tt><b>emacs/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>emacs</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1429 syntax-highlighting files which will work with Emacs and XEmacs editors,
1430 providing syntax highlighting support for LLVM assembly files and TableGen
1431 description files. For information on how to use the syntax files, consult
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1432 the <tt>README</tt> file in that directory.<br><br>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1433
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1434 <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]1435 and outputs all non-generated source files, which is useful if one wishes
1436 to do a lot of development across directories and does not want to
1437 individually find each file. One way to use it is to run, for example:
1438 <tt>xemacs `utils/getsources.sh`</tt> from the top of your LLVM source
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1439 tree.<br><br>
1440
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1441 <dt><tt><b>llvmgrep</b></tt></dt>
1442 <dd>This little tool performs an "egrep -H -n" on each source file in LLVM and
1443 passes to it a regular expression provided on <tt>llvmgrep</tt>'s command
1444 line. This is a very efficient way of searching the source base for a
1445 particular regular expression.</dd>
1446
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1447 <dt><tt><b>makellvm</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>makellvm</tt> script compiles all
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1448 files in the current directory and then compiles and links the tool that
1449 is the first argument. For example, assuming you are in the directory
1450 <tt>llvm/lib/Target/Sparc</tt>, if <tt>makellvm</tt> is in your path,
1451 simply running <tt>makellvm llc</tt> will make a build of the current
1452 directory, switch to directory <tt>llvm/tools/llc</tt> and build it,
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1453 causing a re-linking of LLC.<br><br>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1454
Tanya Lattner7a857dd2007-05-22 06:12:51 +0000[diff] [blame]1455 <dt><tt><b>NewNightlyTest.pl</b></tt> and
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1456 <tt><b>NightlyTestTemplate.html</b></tt> <dd>These files are used in a
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1457 cron script to generate nightly status reports of the functionality of
1458 tools, and the results can be seen by following the appropriate link on
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1459 the <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM homepage</a>.<br><br>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1460
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1461 <dt><tt><b>TableGen/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>TableGen</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1462 the tool used to generate register descriptions, instruction set
1463 descriptions, and even assemblers from common TableGen description
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1464 files.<br><br>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1465
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1466 <dt><tt><b>vim/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>vim</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1467 syntax-highlighting files which will work with the VIM editor, providing
1468 syntax highlighting support for LLVM assembly files and TableGen
1469 description files. For information on how to use the syntax files, consult
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1470 the <tt>README</tt> file in that directory.<br><br>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1471
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1472</dl>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1473
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1474</div>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1475
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1476<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1477<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="win32"><tt>llvm/win32</tt></a></div>
1478<div class="doc_text">
1479 <p>This directory contains build scripts and project files for use with
1480 Visual C++. This allows developers on Windows to build LLVM without the need
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]1481 for Cygwin. The contents of this directory should be considered experimental
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1482 at this time.
1483 </p>
1484</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1485<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1486<div class="doc_section">
1487 <a name="tutorial">An Example Using the LLVM Tool Chain</a>
1488</div>
1489<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1490
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1491<div class="doc_text">
Chris Lattner59075882007-01-04 07:08:27 +0000[diff] [blame]1492<p>This section gives an example of using LLVM. llvm-gcc3 is now obsolete,
1493so we only include instructiosn for llvm-gcc4.
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1494</p>
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1495
1496<p><b>Note:</b> The <i>gcc4</i> frontend's invocation is <b><i>considerably different</i></b>
1497from the previous <i>gcc3</i> frontend. In particular, the <i>gcc4</i> frontend <b><i>does not</i></b>
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1498create bitcode by default: <i>gcc4</i> produces native code. As the example below illustrates,
1499the '--emit-llvm' flag is needed to produce LLVM bitcode output. For <i>makefiles</i> and
1500<i>configure</i> scripts, the CFLAGS variable needs '--emit-llvm' to produce bitcode
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1501output.</p>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1502</div>
1503
1504<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Chris Lattner9abd8af2006-09-07 04:19:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1505<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="tutorial4">Example with llvm-gcc4</a></div>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1506
1507<div class="doc_text">
1508
1509<ol>
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1510 <li><p>First, create a simple C file, name it 'hello.c':</p>
1511
1512<div class="doc_code">
1513<pre>
1514#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
1515
1516int main() {
1517 printf("hello world\n");
1518 return 0;
1519}
1520</pre></div></li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1521
1522 <li><p>Next, compile the C file into a native executable:</p>
1523
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1524 <div class="doc_code"><pre>% llvm-gcc hello.c -o hello</pre></div>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1525
1526 <p>Note that llvm-gcc works just like GCC by default. The standard -S and
1527 -c arguments work as usual (producing a native .s or .o file,
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1528 respectively).</p></li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1529
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1530 <li><p>Next, compile the C file into a LLVM bitcode file:</p>
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1531
1532 <div class="doc_code">
1533 <pre>% llvm-gcc -O3 -emit-llvm hello.c -c -o hello.bc</pre></div>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1534
1535 <p>The -emit-llvm option can be used with the -S or -c options to emit an
1536 LLVM ".ll" or ".bc" file (respectively) for the code. This allows you
1537 to use the <a href="CommandGuide/index.html">standard LLVM tools</a> on
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1538 the bitcode file.</p>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1539
1540 <p>Unlike llvm-gcc3, llvm-gcc4 correctly responds to -O[0123] arguments.
1541 </p></li>
1542
1543 <li><p>Run the program in both forms. To run the program, use:</p>
1544
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1545 <div class="doc_code"><pre>% ./hello</pre></div>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1546
1547 <p>and</p>
1548
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1549 <div class="doc_code"><pre>% lli hello.bc</pre></div>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1550
1551 <p>The second examples shows how to invoke the LLVM JIT, <a
Chris Lattner6e3b7c22006-08-14 20:51:35 +0000[diff] [blame]1552 href="CommandGuide/html/lli.html">lli</a>.</p></li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1553
1554 <li><p>Use the <tt>llvm-dis</tt> utility to take a look at the LLVM assembly
1555 code:</p>
1556
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1557<div class="doc_code">
1558<pre>llvm-dis &lt; hello.bc | less</pre>
1559</div></li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1560
1561 <li><p>Compile the program to native assembly using the LLC code
1562 generator:</p>
1563
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1564 <div class="doc_code"><pre>% llc hello.bc -o hello.s</pre></div></li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1565
1566 <li><p>Assemble the native assembly language file into a program:</p>
1567
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1568<div class="doc_code">
1569<pre>
1570<b>Solaris:</b> % /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -xarch=v9 hello.s -o hello.native
1571
1572<b>Others:</b> % gcc hello.s -o hello.native
1573</pre>
1574</div></li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1575
1576 <li><p>Execute the native code program:</p>
1577
Bill Wendling77f74692007-07-16 08:44:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1578 <div class="doc_code"><pre>% ./hello.native</pre></div>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1579
1580 <p>Note that using llvm-gcc to compile directly to native code (i.e. when
1581 the -emit-llvm option is not present) does steps 6/7/8 for you.</p>
Chris Lattner6e3b7c22006-08-14 20:51:35 +0000[diff] [blame]1582 </li>
Chris Lattner5907d402006-08-14 20:45:25 +0000[diff] [blame]1583
1584</ol>
1585
1586</div>
1587
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1588
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1589<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1590<div class="doc_section">
1591 <a name="problems">Common Problems</a>
1592</div>
1593<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1594
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1595<div class="doc_text">
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1596
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1597<p>If you are having problems building or using LLVM, or if you have any other
1598general questions about LLVM, please consult the <a href="FAQ.html">Frequently
1599Asked Questions</a> page.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1600
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1601</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1602
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1603<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1604<div class="doc_section">
1605 <a name="links">Links</a>
1606</div>
1607<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1608
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1609<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1610
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1611<p>This document is just an <b>introduction</b> to how to use LLVM to do
1612some simple things... there are many more interesting and complicated things
1613that you can do that aren't documented here (but we'll gladly accept a patch
1614if you want to write something up!). For more information about LLVM, check
1615out:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1616
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1617<ul>
Reid Spencer05fe4b02006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000[diff] [blame]1618 <li><a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM homepage</a></li>
1619 <li><a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/">LLVM doxygen tree</a></li>
1620 <li><a href="http://llvm.org/docs/Projects.html">Starting a Project
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1621 that Uses LLVM</a></li>
1622</ul>
1623
1624</div>
1625
1626<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1627
1628<hr>
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