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12 Getting Started with the LLVM System
13</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]14
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]15<ul>
16 <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a>
17 <li><a href="#quickstart">Getting Started Quickly (A Summary)</a>
18 <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a>
Chris Lattner96768ea2003-02-14 04:22:13 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <ol>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]20 <li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a>
21 <li><a href="#software">Software</a>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]22 <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]23 </ol></li>
John Criswell7a73b802003-06-30 21:59:07 +0000[diff] [blame]24
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]25 <li><a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]26 <ol>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]27 <li><a href="#terminology">Terminology and Notation</a>
28 <li><a href="#environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a>
29 <li><a href="#unpack">Unpacking the LLVM Archives</a>
30 <li><a href="#checkout">Checkout LLVM from CVS</a>
31 <li><a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a>
32 <li><a href="#config">Local LLVM Configuration</a>
33 <li><a href="#compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a>
34 <li><a href="#objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a>
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]35 <li><a href="#optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]36 </ol></li>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]37
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]38 <li><a href="#layout">Program layout</a>
39 <ol>
40 <li><a href="#cvsdir"><tt>CVS</tt> directories</a>
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]41 <li><a href="#examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]42 <li><a href="#include"><tt>llvm/include</tt></a>
43 <li><a href="#lib"><tt>llvm/lib</tt></a>
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]44 <li><a href="#projects"><tt>llvm/projects</tt></a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]45 <li><a href="#runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a>
46 <li><a href="#test"><tt>llvm/test</tt></a>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]47 <li><a href="#llvmtest"><tt>llvm-test</tt></a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]48 <li><a href="#tools"><tt>llvm/tools</tt></a>
49 <li><a href="#utils"><tt>llvm/utils</tt></a>
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]50 <li><a href="#win32"><tt>llvm/win32</tt></a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]51 </ol></li>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]52
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]53 <li><a href="#tutorial">An Example Using the LLVM Tool Chain</a>
54 <li><a href="#problems">Common Problems</a>
55 <li><a href="#links">Links</a>
56</ul>
57
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]58<div class="doc_author">
59 <p>Written by:
60 <a href="mailto:criswell@uiuc.edu">John Criswell</a>,
61 <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a>,
62 <a href="http://misha.brukman.net">Misha Brukman</a>,
63 <a href="http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve">Vikram Adve</a>, and
64 <a href="mailto:gshi1@uiuc.edu">Guochun Shi</a>.
65 </p>
66</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]67
68
69<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
70<div class="doc_section">
71 <a name="overview"><b>Overview</b></a>
72</div>
73<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
74
75<div class="doc_text">
76
77<p>Welcome to LLVM! In order to get started, you first need to know some
78basic information.</p>
79
80<p>First, LLVM comes in two pieces. The first piece is the LLVM suite. This
81contains all of the tools, libraries, and header files needed to use the low
82level virtual machine. It contains an assembler, disassembler, bytecode
83analyzer, and bytecode optimizer. It also contains a test suite that can be
84used to test the LLVM tools and the GCC front end.</p>
85
86<p>The second piece is the GCC front end. This component provides a version of
87GCC that compiles C and C++ code into LLVM bytecode. Currently, the GCC front
88end is a modified version of GCC 3.4 (we track the GCC 3.4 development). Once
89compiled into LLVM bytecode, a program can be manipulated with the LLVM tools
90from the LLVM suite.</p>
91
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]92<p>
93There is a third, optional piece called llvm-test. It is a suite of programs
94with a testing harness that can be used to further test LLVM's functionality
95and performance.
96</p>
97
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]98</div>
99
100<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
101<div class="doc_section">
102 <a name="quickstart"><b>Getting Started Quickly (A Summary)</b></a>
103</div>
104<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
105
106<div class="doc_text">
107
108<p>Here's the short story for getting up and running quickly with LLVM:</p>
109
110<ol>
Reid Spencer9f547912004-11-08 00:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]111 <li>Read the documentation.</li>
112 <li>Read the documentation.</li>
113 <li>Remember that you were warned twice about reading the documentation.</li>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]114 <li>Install the GCC front end if you intend to compile C or C++:
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]115 <ol>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]116 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-C-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]117 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout cfrontend.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]118 </li>
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]119 <li><tt>cd cfrontend/<i>platform</i><br>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]120 ./fixheaders</tt></li>
John Criswell838bce52005-05-09 16:39:27 +0000[diff] [blame]121 <li>Add the cfrontend's "bin" directory to your PATH variable.</li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]122 </ol></li>
123
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]124 <li>Get the LLVM Source Code
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]125 <ul>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]126 <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">CVS</a>):
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]127 <ol>
128 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
John Criswell364cec42004-03-12 20:31:37 +0000[diff] [blame]129 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-<i>version</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]130 </ol></li>
131
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]132 </ul></li>
133
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]134 <li><b>[Optional]</b> Get the Test Suite Source Code
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]135 <ul>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]136 <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">CVS</a>):
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]137 <ol>
138 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
139 <li><tt>cd llvm/projects</tt>
140 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-test-<i>version</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]141 </ol></li>
142
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]143 </ul></li>
144
145
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]146 <li>Configure the LLVM Build Environment
147 <ol>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]148 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-to-build-llvm</i></tt></li>
149 <li><tt><i>/path/to/llvm/</i>configure [options]</tt><br>
150 Some common options:
151
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]152 <ul>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]153 <li><tt>--prefix=<i>directory</i></tt>
154 <p>Specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of where you
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]155 want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed (default
156 <tt>/usr/local</tt>).</p></li>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]157 <li><tt>--with-llvmgccdir=<i>directory</i></tt>
158 <p>Optionally, specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of the
John Criswell838bce52005-05-09 16:39:27 +0000[diff] [blame]159 C/C++ front end installation to use with this LLVM configuration. If
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]160 not specified, the PATH will be searched.</p></li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]161 <li><tt>--enable-spec2000=<i>directory</i></tt>
162 <p>Enable the SPEC2000 benchmarks for testing. The SPEC2000
163 benchmarks should be available in
164 <tt><i>directory</i></tt>.</p></li>
165 </ul>
166 </ol></li>
167
168 <li>Build the LLVM Suite:
169 <ol>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]170 <li><tt>gmake -k |&amp; tee gnumake.out
171 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# this is csh or tcsh syntax</tt></li>
172 <li>If you get an "internal compiler error (ICE)" see <a href="#brokengcc">below</a>.</li>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]173 </ol>
174
175</ol>
176
Chris Lattnerfcd37252004-06-21 22:52:48 +0000[diff] [blame]177<p>Consult the <a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a> section for
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]178detailed information on configuring and compiling LLVM. See <a
179href="#environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a> for tips that simplify
180working with the GCC front end and LLVM tools. Go to <a href="#layout">Program
181Layout</a> to learn about the layout of the source code tree.</p>
182
183</div>
184
185<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
186<div class="doc_section">
187 <a name="requirements"><b>Requirements</b></a>
188</div>
189<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
190
191<div class="doc_text">
192
193<p>Before you begin to use the LLVM system, review the requirements given below.
194This may save you some trouble by knowing ahead of time what hardware and
195software you will need.</p>
196
197</div>
198
199<!-- ======================================================================= -->
200<div class="doc_subsection">
201 <a name="hardware"><b>Hardware</b></a>
202</div>
203
204<div class="doc_text">
205
206<p>LLVM is known to work on the following platforms:</p>
207
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]208<table cellpadding="3">
209<tr>
210 <th>OS</th>
211 <th>Arch</th>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]212 <th>Compilers</th>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]213</tr>
214<tr>
215 <td>Linux</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]216 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]217 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]218</tr>
219<tr>
220 <td>Solaris</td>
221 <td>V9 (Ultrasparc)</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]222 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]223</tr>
224<tr>
225 <td>FreeBSD</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]226 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]227 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]228</tr>
229<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]230 <td>MacOS X<sup><a href="#pf_2">2</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]231 <td>PowerPC</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]232 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]233</tr>
234<tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]235 <td>Cygwin/Win32</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]236 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer65e8f5b2004-12-23 19:39:54 +0000[diff] [blame]237 <td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]238</tr>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]239<tr>
Chris Lattner8ccb87f2005-02-09 20:43:48 +0000[diff] [blame]240 <td>MinGW/Win32</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]241 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a></sup></td>
Chris Lattner8ccb87f2005-02-09 20:43:48 +0000[diff] [blame]242 <td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
243</tr>
244<tr>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]245 <td>Linux</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]246 <td>amd64<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukmanc155a0a2004-12-23 07:14:56 +0000[diff] [blame]247 <td>GCC</td>
248</tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]249</table>
250
251<p>LLVM has partial support for the following platforms:</p>
252
253<table>
254<tr>
255 <th>OS</th>
256 <th>Arch</th>
257 <th>Compilers</th>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]258</tr>
Misha Brukman00117692004-11-15 21:05:08 +0000[diff] [blame]259<tr>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]260 <td>Windows</td>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]261 <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
262 <td>Visual Studio .NET<sup><a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]263<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]264 <td>AIX<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_4">4</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman00117692004-11-15 21:05:08 +0000[diff] [blame]265 <td>PowerPC</td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]266 <td>GCC</td>
267</tr>
268<tr>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]269 <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]270 <td>PowerPC</td>
271 <td>GCC</td>
Misha Brukman00117692004-11-15 21:05:08 +0000[diff] [blame]272</tr>
John Criswell75162552005-05-09 16:49:59 +0000[diff] [blame]273
274<tr>
275 <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
276 <td>Alpha</td>
277 <td>GCC</td>
278</tr>
279<tr>
280 <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
281 <td>Itanium (IA-64)</td>
282 <td>GCC</td>
283</tr>
Duraid Madinae8714af2005-05-10 06:57:53 +0000[diff] [blame]284<tr>
285 <td>HP-UX<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
286 <td>Itanium (IA-64)</td>
287 <td>HP aCC</td>
288</tr>
Misha Brukman14ab5372004-11-15 05:19:53 +0000[diff] [blame]289</table>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]290
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]291<p><b>Notes:</b></p>
292
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]293<div class="doc_notes">
294<ol>
295<li><a name="pf_1">Code generation supported for Pentium processors and
296up</a></li>
297<li><a name="pf_2">Code generation supported for 32-bit ABI only</a></li>
298<li><a name="pf_3">No native code generation</a></li>
299<li><a name="pf_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools don't link</a></li>
300<li><a name="pf_5">The GCC-based C/C++ frontend does not build</a></li>
301<li><a name="pf_6">The port is done using the MSYS shell.
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]302<a href="http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/">Download</a> and install
303bison (excl. M4.exe) and flex in that order. Build binutils-2.15 from source,
Chris Lattner27ae0272005-02-09 22:52:46 +0000[diff] [blame]304if necessary.</li>
John Criswell75162552005-05-09 16:49:59 +0000[diff] [blame]305<li><a name="pf_7">Native code generation exists but is not complete.</a></li>
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]306</ol>
Misha Brukmana892ead2005-02-09 21:01:26 +0000[diff] [blame]307</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]308
Misha Brukman69def742004-11-19 21:53:22 +0000[diff] [blame]309<p>Note that you will need about 1-3 GB of space for a full LLVM build in Debug
310mode, depending on the system (because of all the debug info), and the libraries
311appear in more than one of the tools that get linked, so there is some
312duplication. If you do not need many of the tools and you are space-conscious,
313you can disable them individually in <tt>llvm/tools/Makefile</tt>. The Release
314build requires considerably less space.</p>
315
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]316<p>The LLVM suite <i>may</i> compile on other platforms, but it is not
317guaranteed to do so. If compilation is successful, the LLVM utilities should be
318able to assemble, disassemble, analyze, and optimize LLVM bytecode. Code
319generation should work as well, although the generated native code may not work
320on your platform.</p>
321
322<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]323to work on another platform, you can download a copy of the source and <a
324href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">try to compile it</a> on your platform.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]325
326</div>
327
328<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]329<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]330<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]331 <p>Compiling LLVM requires that you have several software packages
332 installed. The table below lists those required packages. The Package column
333 is the usual name for the software package that LLVM depends on. The Version
334 column provides "known to work" versions of the package. The Notes column
335 describes how LLVM uses the package and provides other details.</p>
336 <table>
337 <tr><th>Package</th><th>Version</th><th>Notes</th></tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]338
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]339 <tr>
340 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make">GNU Make</a></td>
341 <td>3.79, 3.79.1</td>
342 <td>Makefile/build processor</td>
343 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]344
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]345 <tr>
346 <td><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">GCC</a></td>
347 <td>3.4.2</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]348 <td>C/C++ compiler<sup><a href="#sf1">1</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]349 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]350
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]351 <tr>
352 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/flex">Flex</a></td>
353 <td>2.5.4</td>
354 <td>LEX compiler</td>
355 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]356
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]357 <tr>
358 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html">Bison</a></td>
359 <td>1.35</td>
360 <td>YACC compiler</td>
361 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]362
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]363 <tr>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]364 <td><a href="https://www.cvshome.org/downloads.html">CVS</a></td>
365 <td>&ge;1.11</td>
366 <td>CVS access to LLVM<sup><a href="#sf2">2</a></sup></td>
367 </tr>
368
369 <tr>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]370 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/dejagnu">DejaGnu</a></td>
371 <td>1.4.2</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]372 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]373 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]374
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]375 <tr>
376 <td><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/">tcl</a></td>
377 <td>8.3, 8.4</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]378 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]379 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]380
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]381 <tr>
382 <td><a href="http://expect.nist.gov/">expect</a></td>
383 <td>5.38.0</td>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]384 <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]385 </tr>
386
387 <tr>
388 <td><a href="http://www.perl.com/download.csp">perl</a></td>
Reid Spencer200d93b2004-12-09 17:55:37 +0000[diff] [blame]389 <td>&ge;5.6.0</td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]390 <td>Nightly tester, utilities</td>
391 </tr>
392
393 <tr>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]394 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/m4">GNU M4</a>
395 <td>1.4</td>
396 <td>Macro processor for configuration<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]397 </tr>
398
399 <tr>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]400 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf">GNU Autoconf</a></td>
401 <td>2.59</td>
402 <td>Configuration script builder<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
403 </tr>
404
405 <tr>
406 <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake">GNU Automake</a></td>
407 <td>1.9.2</td>
408 <td>aclocal macro generator<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
409 </tr>
410
411 <tr>
412 <td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libtool">libtool</a></td>
413 <td>1.5.10</td>
414 <td>Shared library manager<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]415 </tr>
416
417 </table>
418
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]419 <p><b>Notes:</b></p>
420 <div class="doc_notes">
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]421 <ol>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]422 <li><a name="sf3">Only the C and C++ languages are needed so there's no
423 need to build the other languages for LLVM's purposes.</a> See
424 <a href="#brokengcc">below</a> for specific version info.</li>
425 <li><a name="sf2">You only need CVS if you intend to build from the
426 latest LLVM sources. If you're working from a release distribution, you
427 don't need CVS.</a></li>
428 <li><a name="sf3">Only needed if you want to run the automated test
429 suite in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.</a></li>
430 <li><a name="sf4">If you want to make changes to the configure scripts,
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]431 you will need GNU autoconf (2.59), and consequently, GNU M4 (version 1.4
Reid Spencer200d93b2004-12-09 17:55:37 +0000[diff] [blame]432 or higher). You will also need automake (1.9.2). We only use aclocal
433 from that package.</a></li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]434 </ol>
Misha Brukman6d8e1532005-02-09 22:38:47 +0000[diff] [blame]435 </div>
436
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]437 <p>Additionally, your compilation host is expected to have the usual
438 plethora of Unix utilities. Specifically:</p>
439 <ul>
440 <li><b>ar</b> - archive library builder</li>
441 <li><b>bzip2*</b> - bzip2 command for distribution generation</li>
442 <li><b>bunzip2*</b> - bunzip2 command for distribution checking</li>
443 <li><b>chmod</b> - change permissions on a file</li>
John Criswellc4ef3f22004-12-08 16:55:27 +0000[diff] [blame]444 <li><b>cat</b> - output concatenation utility</li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]445 <li><b>cp</b> - copy files</li>
446 <li><b>date</b> - print the current date/time </li>
447 <li><b>echo</b> - print to standard output</li>
448 <li><b>egrep</b> - extended regular expression search utility</li>
449 <li><b>etags</b> - C/C++ tag file creator for vim/emacs</li>
450 <li><b>find</b> - find files/dirs in a file system</li>
451 <li><b>grep</b> - regular expression search utility</li>
452 <li><b>gzip*</b> - gzip command for distribution generation</li>
453 <li><b>gunzip*</b> - gunzip command for distribution checking</li>
454 <li><b>install</b> - install directories/files </li>
455 <li><b>mkdir</b> - create a directory</li>
456 <li><b>mv</b> - move (rename) files</li>
457 <li><b>ranlib</b> - symbol table builder for archive libraries</li>
Misha Brukman616bd052004-11-20 01:27:40 +0000[diff] [blame]458 <li><b>rm</b> - remove (delete) files and directories</li>
Reid Spencer748d82e2004-11-15 21:15:12 +0000[diff] [blame]459 <li><b>sed</b> - stream editor for transforming output</li>
460 <li><b>sh</b> - Bourne shell for make build scripts</li>
461 <li><b>tar</b> - tape archive for distribution generation</li>
462 <li><b>test</b> - test things in file system</li>
463 <li><b>unzip*</b> - unzip command for distribution checking</li>
464 <li><b>zip*</b> - zip command for distribution generation</li>
465 </ul>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]466</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]467
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]468<!-- ======================================================================= -->
469<div class="doc_subsection">
470 <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
471</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]472
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]473<div class="doc_text">
474
475<p>LLVM is very demanding of the host C++ compiler, and as such tends to expose
476bugs in the compiler. In particular, several versions of GCC crash when trying
477to compile LLVM. We routinely use GCC 3.3.3 and GCC 3.4.0 and have had success
Chris Lattner8e64f152005-02-13 22:20:49 +0000[diff] [blame]478with them (however, see below). Other versions of GCC will probably
Chris Lattner25e7b162005-02-12 20:11:13 +0000[diff] [blame]479work as well. GCC versions listed
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]480here are known to not work. If you are using one of these versions, please try
481to upgrade your GCC to something more recent. If you run into a problem with a
482version of GCC not listed here, please <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu">let
483us know</a>. Please use the "<tt>gcc -v</tt>" command to find out which version
484of GCC you are using.
485</p>
486
487<p><b>GCC versions prior to 3.0</b>: GCC 2.96.x and before had several
488problems in the STL that effectively prevent it from compiling LLVM.
489</p>
490
John Criswell294ba022004-11-23 22:06:24 +0000[diff] [blame]491<p><b>GCC 3.2.2</b>: This version of GCC fails to compile LLVM.</p>
492
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]493<p><b>GCC 3.3.2</b>: This version of GCC suffered from a <a
494href="http://gcc.gnu.org/PR13392">serious bug</a> which causes it to crash in
495the "<tt>convert_from_eh_region_ranges_1</tt>" GCC function.</p>
Chris Lattner25e7b162005-02-12 20:11:13 +0000[diff] [blame]496
Chris Lattner8e64f152005-02-13 22:20:49 +0000[diff] [blame]497<p><b>Cygwin GCC 3.3.3</b>: The version of GCC 3.3.3 commonly shipped with
498 Cygwin does not work. Please <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html#cygwin">upgrade
499 to a newer version</a> if possible.</p>
500<p><b>SuSE GCC 3.3.3</b>: The version of GCC 3.3.3 shipped with SuSE 9.1 (and
501 possibly others) does not compile LLVM correctly (it appears that exception
502 handling is broken in some cases). Please download the FSF 3.3.3 or upgrade
503 to a newer version of GCC.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]504</div>
505
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]506
507
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]508<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
509<div class="doc_section">
510 <a name="starting"><b>Getting Started with LLVM</b></a>
511</div>
512<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
513
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]514<div class="doc_text">
515
516<p>The remainder of this guide is meant to get you up and running with
517LLVM and to give you some basic information about the LLVM environment.</p>
518
519<p>The later sections of this guide describe the <a
520href="#layout">general layout</a> of the the LLVM source tree, a <a
521href="#tutorial">simple example</a> using the LLVM tool chain, and <a
522href="#links">links</a> to find more information about LLVM or to get
523help via e-mail.</p>
524</div>
525
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]526<!-- ======================================================================= -->
527<div class="doc_subsection">
528 <a name="terminology">Terminology and Notation</a>
529</div>
530
531<div class="doc_text">
532
533<p>Throughout this manual, the following names are used to denote paths
534specific to the local system and working environment. <i>These are not
535environment variables you need to set but just strings used in the rest
536of this document below</i>. In any of the examples below, simply replace
537each of these names with the appropriate pathname on your local system.
538All these paths are absolute:</p>
539
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]540<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]541 <dt>SRC_ROOT
542 <dd>
543 This is the top level directory of the LLVM source tree.
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]544 <p>
545
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]546 <dt>OBJ_ROOT
547 <dd>
548 This is the top level directory of the LLVM object tree (i.e. the
549 tree where object files and compiled programs will be placed. It
550 can be the same as SRC_ROOT).
551 <p>
552
553 <dt>LLVMGCCDIR
554 <dd>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]555 This is where the LLVM GCC Front End is installed.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]556 <p>
557 For the pre-built GCC front end binaries, the LLVMGCCDIR is
558 <tt>cfrontend/<i>platform</i>/llvm-gcc</tt>.
559</dl>
560
561</div>
562
563<!-- ======================================================================= -->
564<div class="doc_subsection">
565 <a name="environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a>
566</div>
567
568<div class="doc_text">
569
570<p>
Misha Brukman8f0cad12005-02-03 18:28:08 +0000[diff] [blame]571In order to compile and use LLVM, you may need to set some environment
572variables.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]573
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]574<dl>
Reid Spencerf96eb572004-12-15 00:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]575 <dt><tt>LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH</tt>=<tt>/path/to/your/bytecode/libs</tt></dt>
Misha Brukman8f0cad12005-02-03 18:28:08 +0000[diff] [blame]576 <dd>[Optional] This environment variable helps LLVM linking tools find the
577 locations of your bytecode libraries. It is provided only a
578 convenience since you can specify the paths using the -L options of the
579 tools and the C/C++ front-end will use the bytecode files installed in its
580 <tt>lib</tt> directory.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]581</dl>
582
583</div>
584
585<!-- ======================================================================= -->
586<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]587 <a name="unpack">Unpacking the LLVM Archives</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]588</div>
589
590<div class="doc_text">
591
592<p>
593If you have the LLVM distribution, you will need to unpack it before you
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]594can 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]595suite and the LLVM GCC front end compiled for your platform. There is an
596additional test suite that is optional. Each file is a TAR archive that is
597compressed with the gzip program.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]598</p>
599
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]600<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]601<dl>
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]602 <dt><tt>llvm-x.y.tar.gz</tt></dt>
603 <dd>Source release for the LLVM libraries and tools.<br/></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]604
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]605 <dt><tt>llvm-test-x.y.tar.gz</tt></dt>
Chris Lattner7db3f522005-02-09 21:15:51 +0000[diff] [blame]606 <dd>Source release for the LLVM test suite.</dd>
Misha Brukman8f9e6d62004-11-23 19:26:24 +0000[diff] [blame]607
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]608 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.source.tar.gz</tt></dt>
609 <dd>Source release of the GCC front end.<br/></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]610
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]611 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.gz</tt></dt>
612 <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for Solaris/Sparc.
Reid Spencer129f94e2004-12-08 16:25:25 +0000[diff] [blame]613 <br/></dd>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]614
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]615 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.i686-redhat-linux-gnu.tar.gz</tt></dt>
616 <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for Linux/x86.<br/></dd>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]617
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]618 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.i386-unknown-freebsd5.1.tar.gz</tt></dt>
619 <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for FreeBSD/x86.<br/></dd>
Reid Spencer129f94e2004-12-08 16:25:25 +0000[diff] [blame]620
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]621 <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0.tar.gz</tt></dt>
622 <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for MacOS X/PPC.<br/></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]623</dl>
624
625</div>
626
627<!-- ======================================================================= -->
628<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]629 <a name="checkout">Checkout LLVM from CVS</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]630</div>
631
632<div class="doc_text">
633
634<p>If you have access to our CVS repository, you can get a fresh copy of
635the entire source code. All you need to do is check it out from CVS as
636follows:</p>
637
638<ul>
639<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
640 <li><tt>cvs -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm login</tt>
641 <li>Hit the return key when prompted for the password.
642 <li><tt>cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm co
643 llvm</tt>
644</ul>
645
646<p>This will create an '<tt>llvm</tt>' directory in the current
647directory and fully populate it with the LLVM source code, Makefiles,
648test directories, and local copies of documentation files.</p>
649
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]650<p>If you want to get a specific release (as opposed to the most recent
651revision), you can specify a label. The following releases have the following
Misha Brukman3ce11032005-02-02 18:01:57 +0000[diff] [blame]652labels:</p>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]653
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]654<ul>
John Criswell75162552005-05-09 16:49:59 +0000[diff] [blame]655<li>Release 1.5: <b>RELEASE_15</b></li>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]656<li>Release 1.4: <b>RELEASE_14</b></li>
John Criswell18b74642004-08-16 14:51:33 +0000[diff] [blame]657<li>Release 1.3: <b>RELEASE_13</b></li>
Misha Brukmanb9be2bf2004-05-12 19:25:59 +0000[diff] [blame]658<li>Release 1.2: <b>RELEASE_12</b></li>
659<li>Release 1.1: <b>RELEASE_11</b></li>
660<li>Release 1.0: <b>RELEASE_1</b></li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]661</ul>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]662
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]663<p>If you would like to get the LLVM test suite (a separate package as of 1.4),
664you get it from the CVS repository:</p>
665<pre>
666 cd llvm/projects
667 cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm co llvm-test
668</pre>
669<p>By placing it in the <tt>llvm/projects</tt>, it will be automatically
John Criswellc4ef3f22004-12-08 16:55:27 +0000[diff] [blame]670configured by the LLVM configure script as well as automatically updated when
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]671you run <tt>cvs update</tt>.</p>
672
Misha Brukmanb9be2bf2004-05-12 19:25:59 +0000[diff] [blame]673<p>If you would like to get the GCC front end source code, you can also get it
674from the CVS repository:</p>
675
Chris Lattner604fdc12004-06-28 17:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]676<pre>
677 cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm co llvm-gcc
Misha Brukmanb9be2bf2004-05-12 19:25:59 +0000[diff] [blame]678</pre>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]679
Chris Lattner604fdc12004-06-28 17:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]680<p>Please note that you must follow <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">these
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]681instructions</a> to successfully build the LLVM GCC front-end.</p>
Chris Lattner604fdc12004-06-28 17:14:01 +0000[diff] [blame]682
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]683</div>
684
685<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Chris Lattner883bcbe2004-06-18 20:15:58 +0000[diff] [blame]686<div class="doc_subsubsection">
687 <a name="mirrors">LLVM CVS Mirrors</a>
688</div>
689
690<div class="doc_text">
691
692<p>If the main CVS server is overloaded or inaccessible, you can try one of
693these user-hosted mirrors:</p>
694
695<ul>
Misha Brukmanb3707ba2004-06-18 20:18:31 +0000[diff] [blame]696<li><a href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/">Mirror hosted by eXtensible Systems
697Inc.</a></li>
Chris Lattner883bcbe2004-06-18 20:15:58 +0000[diff] [blame]698</ul>
699</div>
700
701<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]702<div class="doc_subsection">
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]703 <a name="installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]704</div>
705
706<div class="doc_text">
707
708<p>Before configuring and compiling the LLVM suite, you need to extract the LLVM
709GCC front end from the binary distribution. It is used for building the
710bytecode libraries later used by the GCC front end for linking programs, and its
711location must be specified when the LLVM suite is configured.</p>
712
713<p>To install the GCC front end, do the following:</p>
714
715<ol>
716 <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]717 <li><tt>gunzip --stdout cfrontend-<i>version</i>.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]718 -</tt></li>
719</ol>
720
John Criswell9e2485c2004-12-10 15:51:16 +0000[diff] [blame]721<p>Next, you will need to fix your system header files:</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]722
John Criswell364cec42004-03-12 20:31:37 +0000[diff] [blame]723<p><tt>cd cfrontend/<i>platform</i><br>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]724 ./fixheaders</tt></p>
725
726<p>The binary versions of the GCC front end may not suit all of your needs. For
727example, the binary distribution may include an old version of a system header
728file, not "fix" a header file that needs to be fixed for GCC, or it may be
729linked with libraries not available on your system.</p>
730
731<p>In cases like these, you may want to try <a
732href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">building the GCC front end from source.</a> This is
733not for the faint of heart, so be forewarned.</p>
734
735</div>
736
737<!-- ======================================================================= -->
738<div class="doc_subsection">
739 <a name="config">Local LLVM Configuration</a>
740</div>
741
742<div class="doc_text">
743
744<p>Once checked out from the CVS repository, the LLVM suite source code must be
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]745configured via the <tt>configure</tt> script. This script sets variables in the
746various <tt>*.in</tt> files, most notably <tt>llvm/Makefile.config</tt> and
747<tt>llvm/include/Config/config.h</tt>. It also populates <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> with
748the Makefiles needed to begin building LLVM.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]749
750<p>The following environment variables are used by the <tt>configure</tt>
751script to configure the build system:</p>
752
Reid Spencerd3f876c2004-11-01 08:19:36 +0000[diff] [blame]753<table>
754 <tr><th>Variable</th><th>Purpose</th></tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]755 <tr>
756 <td>CC</td>
757 <td>Tells <tt>configure</tt> which C compiler to use. By default,
758 <tt>configure</tt> will look for the first GCC C compiler in
759 <tt>PATH</tt>. Use this variable to override
760 <tt>configure</tt>'s default behavior.</td>
761 </tr>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]762 <tr>
763 <td>CXX</td>
764 <td>Tells <tt>configure</tt> which C++ compiler to use. By default,
765 <tt>configure</tt> will look for the first GCC C++ compiler in
766 <tt>PATH</tt>. Use this variable to override
767 <tt>configure</tt>'s default behavior.</td>
768 </tr>
769</table>
770
771<p>The following options can be used to set or enable LLVM specific options:</p>
772
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]773<dl>
Reid Spencerfef93b72004-12-26 05:47:26 +0000[diff] [blame]774 <dt><i>--with-llvmgccdir</i></dt>
775 <dd>Path to the LLVM C/C++ FrontEnd to be used with this LLVM configuration.
776 The value of this option should specify the full pathname of the C/C++ Front
777 End to be used. If this option is not provided, the PATH will be searched for
778 a program named <i>llvm-gcc</i> and the C/C++ FrontEnd install directory will
779 be inferred from the path found. If the option is not given, and no llvm-gcc
780 can be found in the path then a warning will be produced by
781 <tt>configure</tt> indicating this situation. LLVM may still be built with
782 the <tt>tools-only</tt> target but attempting to build the runtime libraries
783 will fail as these libraries require llvm-gcc and llvm-g++. See
784 <a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a> for details on installing
785 the C/C++ Front End. See
786 <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">Bootstrapping the LLVM C/C++ Front-End</a>
787 for details on building the C/C++ Front End.</dd>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]788 <dt><i>--with-tclinclude</i></dt>
789 <dd>Path to the tcl include directory under which the <tt>tclsh</tt> can be
790 found. Use this if you have multiple tcl installations on your machine and you
791 want to use a specific one (8.x) for LLVM. LLVM only uses tcl for running the
792 dejagnu based test suite in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. If you don't specify this
793 option, the LLVM configure script will search for tcl 8.4 and 8.3 releases.
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]794 <p></p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]795 </dd>
796 <dt><i>--enable-optimized</i></dt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]797 <dd>
798 Enables optimized compilation by default (debugging symbols are removed
799 and GCC optimization flags are enabled). The default is to use an
800 unoptimized build (also known as a debug build).
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]801 <p></p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]802 </dd>
803 <dt><i>--enable-jit</i></dt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]804 <dd>
John Criswelld000e1d2003-12-18 16:43:17 +0000[diff] [blame]805 Compile the Just In Time (JIT) compiler functionality. This is not
806 available
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]807 on all platforms. The default is dependent on platform, so it is best
808 to explicitly enable it if you want it.
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]809 <p></p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]810 </dd>
Reid Spencer2dedcf52005-04-22 17:58:03 +0000[diff] [blame]811 <dt><i>--enable-targets=</i><tt>target-option</tt></dt>
812 <dd>Controls which targets will be built and linked into llc. The default
813 value for <tt>target_options</tt> is "all" which builds and links all
814 available targets. The value "host-only" can be specified to build only a
815 native compiler (no cross-compiler targets available). The "native" target is
816 selected as the target of the build host. You can also specify a comma
817 separated list of target names that you want available in llc. The target
818 names use all lower case. The current set is of targets is: <br/>
819 <tt>alpha, ia64, powerpc, skeleton, sparc, x86</tt>.
820 <p></p></dd>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]821 <dt><i>--enable-doxygen</i></dt>
822 <dd>Look for the doxygen program and enable construction of doxygen based
823 documentation from the source code. This is disabled by default because
824 generating the documentation can take a long time and producess 100s of
825 megabytes of output.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]826</dl>
827
828<p>To configure LLVM, follow these steps:</p>
829
830<ol>
831 <li>Change directory into the object root directory:
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]832 <br>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]833 <tt>cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></tt>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]834 <p>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]835
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]836 <li>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script located in the LLVM source tree:
837 <br>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]838 <tt><i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure --prefix=/install/path [other options]</tt>
John Criswell0f6d7c02003-10-27 18:18:16 +0000[diff] [blame]839 <p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]840</ol>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]841
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]842</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]843
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]844<!-- ======================================================================= -->
845<div class="doc_subsection">
846 <a name="compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a>
847</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]848
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]849<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]850
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]851<p>Once you have configured LLVM, you can build it. There are three types of
852builds:</p>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]853
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]854<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]855 <dt>Debug Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]856 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]857 These builds are the default when one types <tt>gmake</tt> (unless the
858 <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> option was used during configuration). The
859 build system will compile the tools and libraries with debugging
860 information.
861 <p>
862
863 <dt>Release (Optimized) Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]864 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]865 These builds are enabled with the <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> option to
866 <tt>configure</tt> or by specifying <tt>ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1</tt> on the
867 <tt>gmake</tt> command line. For these builds, the build system will
868 compile the tools and libraries with GCC optimizations enabled and strip
869 debugging information from the libraries and executables it generates.
870 <p>
871
872 <dt>Profile Builds
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]873 <dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]874 These builds are for use with profiling. They compile profiling
875 information into the code for use with programs like <tt>gprof</tt>.
876 Profile builds must be started by specifying <tt>ENABLE_PROFILING=1</tt>
877 on the <tt>gmake</tt> command line.
878</dl>
John Criswell7a73b802003-06-30 21:59:07 +0000[diff] [blame]879
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]880<p>Once you have LLVM configured, you can build it by entering the
881<i>OBJ_ROOT</i> directory and issuing the following command:</p>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]882
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]883<p><tt>gmake</tt></p>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]884
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]885<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]886are using a version of GCC that is known not to compile LLVM.</p>
Chris Lattner95e92582004-07-18 22:32:22 +0000[diff] [blame]887
888<p>
889If you have multiple processors in your machine, you may wish to use some of
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]890the parallel build options provided by GNU Make. For example, you could use the
891command:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]892
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]893<p><tt>gmake -j2</tt></p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]894
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]895<p>There are several special targets which are useful when working with the LLVM
896source code:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]897
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]898<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]899 <dt><tt>gmake clean</tt>
900 <dd>
901 Removes all files generated by the build. This includes object files,
902 generated C/C++ files, libraries, and executables.
903 <p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]904
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]905 <dt><tt>gmake dist-clean</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]906 <dd>
Misha Brukmanad38e962004-08-21 23:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]907 Removes everything that <tt>gmake clean</tt> does, but also removes files
908 generated by <tt>configure</tt>. It attempts to return the source tree to the
909 original state in which it was shipped.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]910 <p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]911
Misha Brukmane51c3562004-08-23 20:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]912 <dt><tt>gmake install</tt>
913 <dd>
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]914 Installs LLVM header files, libraries, tools, and documentation in a
915 hierarchy
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]916 under $PREFIX, specified with <tt>./configure --prefix=[dir]</tt>, which
917 defaults to <tt>/usr/local</tt>.
Misha Brukmane51c3562004-08-23 20:25:33 +0000[diff] [blame]918 <p>
919
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]920 <dt><tt>gmake -C runtime install-bytecode</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]921 <dd>
Reid Spencer7863c402004-11-11 07:30:27 +0000[diff] [blame]922 Assuming you built LLVM into $OBJDIR, when this command is run, it will
923 install bytecode libraries into the GCC front end's bytecode library
924 directory. If you need to update your bytecode libraries,
Misha Brukmanad38e962004-08-21 23:40:49 +0000[diff] [blame]925 this is the target to use once you've built them.
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]926 <p>
927</dl>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]928
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]929<p>Please see the <a href="MakefileGuide.html">Makefile Guide</a> for further
930details on these <tt>make</tt> targets and descriptions of other targets
931available.</p>
932
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]933<p>It is also possible to override default values from <tt>configure</tt> by
934declaring variables on the command line. The following are some examples:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]935
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]936<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]937 <dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1</tt>
938 <dd>
939 Perform a Release (Optimized) build.
940 <p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]941
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]942 <dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_PROFILING=1</tt>
943 <dd>
944 Perform a Profiling build.
945 <p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]946
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]947 <dt><tt>gmake VERBOSE=1</tt>
948 <dd>
949 Print what <tt>gmake</tt> is doing on standard output.
950 <p>
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]951
952 <dt><tt>gmake TOOL_VERBOSE=1</tt></dt>
953 <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]954 the standard output. This also implies <tt>VERBOSE=1</tt>.
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]955 <p></dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]956</dl>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]957
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]958<p>Every directory in the LLVM object tree includes a <tt>Makefile</tt> to build
959it and any subdirectories that it contains. Entering any directory inside the
960LLVM object tree and typing <tt>gmake</tt> should rebuild anything in or below
961that directory that is out of date.</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]962
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]963</div>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]964
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]965<!-- ======================================================================= -->
966<div class="doc_subsection">
967 <a name="objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a>
968</div>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]969
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]970<div class="doc_text">
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]971
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]972<p>The LLVM build system is capable of sharing a single LLVM source tree among
973several LLVM builds. Hence, it is possible to build LLVM for several different
974platforms or configurations using the same source tree.</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]975
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]976<p>This is accomplished in the typical autoconf manner:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]977
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]978<ul>
979 <li><p>Change directory to where the LLVM object files should live:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]980
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]981 <p><tt>cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></tt></p></li>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]982
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]983 <li><p>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script found in the LLVM source
984 directory:</p>
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]985
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]986 <p><tt><i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure</tt></p></li>
987</ul>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]988
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]989<p>The LLVM build will place files underneath <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> in directories
990named after the build type:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]991
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]992<dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]993 <dt>Debug Builds
994 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]995 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]996 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]997 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Debug/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]998 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]999 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Debug/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1000 </dl>
1001 <p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1002
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1003 <dt>Release Builds
1004 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1005 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1006 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1007 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Release/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1008 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1009 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Release/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1010 </dl>
1011 <p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1012
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1013 <dt>Profile Builds
1014 <dd>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1015 <dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1016 <dt>Tools
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1017 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Profile/bin</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1018 <dt>Libraries
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1019 <dd><tt><i>OBJ_ROOT</i>/Profile/lib</tt>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1020 </dl>
1021</dl>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1022
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1023</div>
Chris Lattner7fe7f812002-07-24 19:51:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1024
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1025<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1026<div class="doc_subsection">
1027 <a name="optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a>
1028</div>
1029
1030<div class="doc_text">
1031
1032<p>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1033If you're running on a Linux system that supports the "<a
Reid Spencer66db92e2004-12-08 16:51:31 +0000[diff] [blame]1034 href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/linux/binfmt_misc.html">
1035 binfmt_misc</a>"
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1036module, and you have root access on the system, you can set your system up to
1037execute LLVM bytecode files directly. To do this, use commands like this (the
1038first command may not be required if you are already using the module):</p>
1039
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1040<div class="doc_code">
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1041<pre>
1042 $ mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1043 $ echo ':llvm:M::llvm::/path/to/lli:' &gt; /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1044 $ chmod u+x hello.bc (if needed)
1045 $ ./hello.bc
1046</pre>
Misha Brukman9106eca2005-02-03 22:25:23 +0000[diff] [blame]1047</div>
Chris Lattnera553f622004-03-25 20:38:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1048
1049<p>
1050This allows you to execute LLVM bytecode files directly. Thanks to Jack
1051Cummings for pointing this out!
1052</p>
1053
1054</div>
1055
1056
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1057<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1058<div class="doc_section">
1059 <a name="layout"><b>Program Layout</b></a>
1060</div>
1061<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1062
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1063<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1064
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1065<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]1066href="http://www.doxygen.org">doxygen</a> documentation available at <tt><a
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1067href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/doxygen/">http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/doxygen/</a></tt>.
1068The following is a brief introduction to code layout:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1069
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1070</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1071
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1072<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1073<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="cvsdir"><tt>CVS</tt> directories</a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1074<div class="doc_text">
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1075<p>Every directory checked out of CVS will contain a <tt>CVS</tt> directory; for
1076the most part these can just be ignored.</p>
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1077</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1078
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1079<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1080<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a></div>
1081<div class="doc_text">
1082 <p>This directory contains some simple examples of how to use the LLVM IR and
1083 JIT.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1084</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1085
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1086<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1087<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="include"><tt>llvm/include</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1088<div class="doc_text">
1089
1090<p>This directory contains public header files exported from the LLVM
1091library. The three main subdirectories of this directory are:</p>
1092
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1093<dl>
1094 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm</b></tt></dt>
1095 <dd>This directory contains all of the LLVM specific header files. This
1096 directory also has subdirectories for different portions of LLVM:
1097 <tt>Analysis</tt>, <tt>CodeGen</tt>, <tt>Target</tt>, <tt>Transforms</tt>,
1098 etc...</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1099
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1100 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm/Support</b></tt></dt>
1101 <dd>This directory contains generic support libraries that are provided with
1102 LLVM but not necessarily specific to LLVM. For example, some C++ STL utilities
1103 and a Command Line option processing library store their header files here.
1104 </dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1105
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1106 <dt><tt><b>llvm/include/llvm/Config</b></tt></dt>
1107 <dd>This directory contains header files configured by the <tt>configure</tt>
1108 script. They wrap "standard" UNIX and C header files. Source code can
1109 include these header files which automatically take care of the conditional
1110 #includes that the <tt>configure</tt> script generates.</dd>
1111</dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1112</div>
1113
1114<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1115<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="lib"><tt>llvm/lib</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1116<div class="doc_text">
1117
1118<p>This directory contains most of the source files of the LLVM system. In LLVM,
1119almost all code exists in libraries, making it very easy to share code among the
1120different <a href="#tools">tools</a>.</p>
1121
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1122<dl>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1123 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/VMCore/</b></tt></dt>
1124 <dd> This directory holds the core LLVM source files that implement core
1125 classes like Instruction and BasicBlock.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1126
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1127 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/AsmParser/</b></tt></dt>
1128 <dd>This directory holds the source code for the LLVM assembly language parser
1129 library.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1130
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1131 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/ByteCode/</b></tt></dt>
1132 <dd>This directory holds code for reading and write LLVM bytecode.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1133
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1134 <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]1135 different program analyses, such as Dominator Information, Call Graphs,
1136 Induction Variables, Interval Identification, Natural Loop Identification,
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1137 etc.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1138
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1139 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Transforms/</b></tt></dt>
1140 <dd> This directory contains the source code for the LLVM to LLVM program
1141 transformations, such as Aggressive Dead Code Elimination, Sparse Conditional
1142 Constant Propagation, Inlining, Loop Invariant Code Motion, Dead Global
1143 Elimination, and many others.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1144
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1145 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Target/</b></tt></dt>
1146 <dd> This directory contains files that describe various target architectures
1147 for code generation. For example, the <tt>llvm/lib/Target/SparcV9</tt>
1148 directory holds the Sparc machine description while
1149 <tt>llvm/lib/Target/CBackend</tt> implements the LLVM-to-C converter</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1150
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1151 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/CodeGen/</b></tt></dt>
1152 <dd> This directory contains the major parts of the code generator: Instruction
1153 Selector, Instruction Scheduling, and Register Allocation.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1154
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1155 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Debugger/</b></tt></dt>
1156 <dd> This directory contains the source level debugger library that makes
1157 it possible to instrument LLVM programs so that a debugger could identify
1158 source code locations at which the program is executing.</dd>
1159
1160 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/</b></tt></dt>
1161 <dd> This directory contains libraries for executing LLVM bytecode directly
1162 at runtime in both interpreted and JIT compiled fashions.</dd>
1163
1164 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Support/</b></tt></dt>
1165 <dd> This directory contains the source code that corresponds to the header
1166 files located in <tt>llvm/include/Support/</tt>.</dd>
1167
1168 <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/System/</b></tt></dt>
1169 <dd>This directory contains the operating system abstraction layer that
1170 shields LLVM from platform-specific coding.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1171</dl>
John Criswell7a73b802003-06-30 21:59:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1172
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1173</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1174
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1175<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1176<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="projects"><tt>llvm/projects</tt></a></div>
1177<div class="doc_text">
1178 <p>This directory contains projects that are not strictly part of LLVM but are
1179 shipped with LLVM. This is also the directory where you should create your own
1180 LLVM-based projects. See <tt>llvm/projects/sample</tt> for an example of how
1181 to set up your own project. See <tt>llvm/projects/Stacker</tt> for a fully
1182 functional example of a compiler front end.</p>
1183</div>
1184
1185<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1186<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1187<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1188
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1189<p>This directory contains libraries which are compiled into LLVM bytecode and
1190used when linking programs with the GCC front end. Most of these libraries are
1191skeleton versions of real libraries; for example, libc is a stripped down
1192version of glibc.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1193
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1194<p>Unlike the rest of the LLVM suite, this directory needs the LLVM GCC front
1195end to compile.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1196
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1197</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1198
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1199<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1200<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="test"><tt>llvm/test</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1201<div class="doc_text">
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1202 <p>This directory contains feature and regression tests and other basic sanity
1203 checks on the LLVM infrastructure. These are intended to run quickly and cover
1204 a lot of territory without being exhaustive.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1205</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1206
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1207<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1208<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="llvmtest"><tt>llvm-test</tt></a></div>
1209<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]1210 <p>This is not a directory in the normal llvm module; it is a separate CVS
Misha Brukmane12215f2004-11-15 23:20:51 +0000[diff] [blame]1211 module that must be checked out (usually to <tt>projects/llvm-test</tt>). This
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]1212 module contains a comprehensive correctness, performance, and benchmarking
1213 test
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1214 suite for LLVM. It is a separate CVS module because not every LLVM user is
John Criswell838bce52005-05-09 16:39:27 +0000[diff] [blame]1215 interested in downloading or building such a comprehensive test suite. For
1216 further details on this test suite, please see the
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1217 <a href="TestingGuide.html">Testing Guide</a> document.</p>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1218</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1219
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1220<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1221<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="tools"><tt>llvm/tools</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1222<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1223
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1224<p>The <b>tools</b> directory contains the executables built out of the
1225libraries above, which form the main part of the user interface. You can
1226always get help for a tool by typing <tt>tool_name --help</tt>. The
Misha Brukmane12215f2004-11-15 23:20:51 +0000[diff] [blame]1227following is a brief introduction to the most important tools. More detailed
1228information is in the <a href="CommandGuide/index.html">Command Guide</a>.</p>
John Criswell20d2d3e2003-10-10 14:26:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1229
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1230<dl>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1231 <dt><tt><b>analyze</b></tt></dt>
1232 <dd><tt>analyze</tt> is used to run a specific
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1233 analysis on an input LLVM bytecode file and print out the results. It is
1234 primarily useful for debugging analyses, or familiarizing yourself with
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1235 what an analysis does.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1236
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1237 <dt><tt><b>bugpoint</b></tt></dt>
1238 <dd><tt>bugpoint</tt> is used to debug
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1239 optimization passes or code generation backends by narrowing down the
1240 given test case to the minimum number of passes and/or instructions that
1241 still cause a problem, whether it is a crash or miscompilation. See <a
1242 href="HowToSubmitABug.html">HowToSubmitABug.html</a> for more information
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1243 on using <tt>bugpoint</tt>.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1244
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1245 <dt><tt><b>llvmc</b></tt></dt>
1246 <dd>The LLVM Compiler Driver. This program can
1247 be configured to utilize both LLVM and non-LLVM compilation tools to enable
1248 pre-processing, translation, optimization, assembly, and linking of programs
1249 all from one command line. <tt>llvmc</tt> also takes care of processing the
1250 dependent libraries found in bytecode. This reduces the need to get the
Reid Spencer079e9452004-12-08 18:00:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1251 traditional <tt>-l&lt;name&gt;</tt> options right on the command line. Please
1252 note that this tool is new in 1.4 and considered experimental. It will be
1253 fully supported in 1.5.</dd>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1254
1255 <dt><tt><b>llvm-ar</b></tt></dt>
1256 <dd>The archiver produces an archive containing
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1257 the given LLVM bytecode files, optionally with an index for faster
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1258 lookup.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1259
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1260 <dt><tt><b>llvm-as</b></tt></dt>
1261 <dd>The assembler transforms the human readable LLVM assembly to LLVM
1262 bytecode.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1263
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1264 <dt><tt><b>llvm-dis</b></tt></dt>
1265 <dd>The disassembler transforms the LLVM bytecode to human readable
1266 LLVM assembly.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1267
Reid Spencer079e9452004-12-08 18:00:30 +0000[diff] [blame]1268 <dt><tt><b>llvm-ld</b></tt></dt>
1269 <dd><tt>llvm-ld</tt> is very similar to gccld and provides a general purpose
1270 and extensible linker for LLVM. This is the linker invoked by <tt>llvmc</tt>.
1271 It allows optimization modules to be loaded so that language specific
1272 optimizations can be applied at link time. Please note that this tool is new
1273 in LLVM 1.4 and still considered experimental. It will be fully supported in
1274 LLVM 1.5.</dd>
1275
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1276 <dt><tt><b>llvm-link</b></tt></dt>
1277 <dd><tt>llvm-link</tt>, not surprisingly, links multiple LLVM modules into
1278 a single program.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1279
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1280 <dt><tt><b>lli</b></tt></dt>
1281 <dd><tt>lli</tt> is the LLVM interpreter, which
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1282 can directly execute LLVM bytecode (although very slowly...). In addition
1283 to a simple interpreter, <tt>lli</tt> also has a tracing mode (entered by
1284 specifying <tt>-trace</tt> on the command line). Finally, for
John Criswelld9eceee2004-12-08 18:04:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1285 architectures that support it (currently x86, Sparc, and PowerPC), by default,
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1286 <tt>lli</tt> will function as a Just-In-Time compiler (if the
1287 functionality was compiled in), and will execute the code <i>much</i>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1288 faster than the interpreter.</dd>
Misha Brukmanef0ad412003-10-06 19:23:34 +0000[diff] [blame]1289
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1290 <dt><tt><b>llc</b></tt></dt>
1291 <dd> <tt>llc</tt> is the LLVM backend compiler, which
Chris Lattner036e6392004-02-14 01:07:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1292 translates LLVM bytecode to a SPARC or x86 assembly file, or to C code (with
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1293 the -march=c option).</dd>
Misha Brukmanef0ad412003-10-06 19:23:34 +0000[diff] [blame]1294
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1295 <dt><tt><b>llvm-gcc</b></tt></dt>
1296 <dd><tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is a GCC-based C frontend
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1297 that has been retargeted to emit LLVM code as the machine code output. It
1298 works just like any other GCC compiler, taking the typical <tt>-c, -S, -E,
1299 -o</tt> options that are typically used. The source code for the
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1300 <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> tool is currently not included in the LLVM CVS tree
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1301 because it is quite large and not very interesting.
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1302 <blockquote>
1303 <dl>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1304 <dt><tt><b>gccas</b></tt></dt>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1305 <dd>This tool is invoked by the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> frontend as the
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1306 "assembler" part of the compiler. This tool actually assembles LLVM
1307 assembly to LLVM bytecode, performs a variety of optimizations, and
1308 outputs LLVM bytecode. Thus when you invoke
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1309 <tt>llvm-gcc -c x.c -o x.o</tt>, you are causing <tt>gccas</tt> to be
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1310 run, which writes the <tt>x.o</tt> file (which is an LLVM bytecode file
1311 that can be disassembled or manipulated just like any other bytecode
1312 file). The command line interface to <tt>gccas</tt> is designed to be
1313 as close as possible to the <b>system</b> `<tt>as</tt>' utility so that
1314 the gcc frontend itself did not have to be modified to interface to
1315 a "weird" assembler.</dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1316
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1317 <dt><tt><b>gccld</b></tt></dt>
1318 <dd><tt>gccld</tt> links together several LLVM bytecode files into one
1319 bytecode file and does some optimization. It is the linker invoked by
1320 the GCC frontend when multiple .o files need to be linked together.
1321 Like <tt>gccas</tt>, the command line interface of <tt>gccld</tt> is
1322 designed to match the system linker, to aid interfacing with the GCC
1323 frontend.</dd>
1324 </dl>
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1325 </blockquote>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1326 </dd>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1327
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1328 <dt><tt><b>opt</b></tt></dt>
1329 <dd><tt>opt</tt> reads LLVM bytecode, applies a
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1330 series of LLVM to LLVM transformations (which are specified on the command
1331 line), and then outputs the resultant bytecode. The '<tt>opt --help</tt>'
1332 command is a good way to get a list of the program transformations
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1333 available in LLVM.</dd>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1334</dl>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1335</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1336
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1337<!-- ======================================================================= -->
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1338<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="utils"><tt>llvm/utils</tt></a></div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1339<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1340
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1341<p>This directory contains utilities for working with LLVM source code, and some
1342of the utilities are actually required as part of the build process because they
1343are code generators for parts of LLVM infrastructure.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1344
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1345<dl>
1346 <dt><tt><b>Burg/</b></tt> <dd><tt>Burg</tt> is an instruction selector
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1347 generator -- it builds trees on which it then performs pattern-matching to
1348 select instructions according to the patterns the user has specified. Burg
1349 is currently used in the Sparc V9 backend.<p>
John Criswell0b459202003-07-08 20:35:59 +0000[diff] [blame]1350
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1351 <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]1352 that finds differences between code that LLC generates and code that LLI
1353 generates. This is a useful tool if you are debugging one of them,
1354 assuming that the other generates correct output. For the full user
1355 manual, run <tt>`perldoc codegen-diff'</tt>.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1356
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1357 <dt><tt><b>cvsupdate</b></tt> <dd><tt>cvsupdate</tt> is a script that will
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1358 update your CVS tree, but produce a much cleaner and more organized output
1359 than simply running <tt>`cvs -z3 up -dP'</tt> will. For example, it will group
1360 together all the new and updated files and modified files in separate
1361 sections, so you can see at a glance what has changed. If you are at the
1362 top of your LLVM CVS tree, running <tt>utils/cvsupdate</tt> is the
1363 preferred way of updating the tree.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1364
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1365 <dt><tt><b>emacs/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>emacs</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1366 syntax-highlighting files which will work with Emacs and XEmacs editors,
1367 providing syntax highlighting support for LLVM assembly files and TableGen
1368 description files. For information on how to use the syntax files, consult
1369 the <tt>README</tt> file in that directory.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1370
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1371 <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]1372 and outputs all non-generated source files, which is useful if one wishes
1373 to do a lot of development across directories and does not want to
1374 individually find each file. One way to use it is to run, for example:
1375 <tt>xemacs `utils/getsources.sh`</tt> from the top of your LLVM source
1376 tree.<p>
1377
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1378 <dt><tt><b>llvmgrep</b></tt></dt>
1379 <dd>This little tool performs an "egrep -H -n" on each source file in LLVM and
1380 passes to it a regular expression provided on <tt>llvmgrep</tt>'s command
1381 line. This is a very efficient way of searching the source base for a
1382 particular regular expression.</dd>
1383
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1384 <dt><tt><b>makellvm</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>makellvm</tt> script compiles all
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1385 files in the current directory and then compiles and links the tool that
1386 is the first argument. For example, assuming you are in the directory
1387 <tt>llvm/lib/Target/Sparc</tt>, if <tt>makellvm</tt> is in your path,
1388 simply running <tt>makellvm llc</tt> will make a build of the current
1389 directory, switch to directory <tt>llvm/tools/llc</tt> and build it,
1390 causing a re-linking of LLC.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1391
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1392 <dt><tt><b>NightlyTest.pl</b></tt> and
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1393 <tt><b>NightlyTestTemplate.html</b></tt> <dd>These files are used in a
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1394 cron script to generate nightly status reports of the functionality of
1395 tools, and the results can be seen by following the appropriate link on
1396 the <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/">LLVM homepage</a>.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1397
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1398 <dt><tt><b>TableGen/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>TableGen</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1399 the tool used to generate register descriptions, instruction set
1400 descriptions, and even assemblers from common TableGen description
1401 files.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1402
Misha Brukman54111c42004-01-20 00:20:17 +0000[diff] [blame]1403 <dt><tt><b>vim/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>vim</tt> directory contains
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1404 syntax-highlighting files which will work with the VIM editor, providing
1405 syntax highlighting support for LLVM assembly files and TableGen
1406 description files. For information on how to use the syntax files, consult
1407 the <tt>README</tt> file in that directory.<p>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1408
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1409</dl>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1410
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1411</div>
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1412
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1413<!-- ======================================================================= -->
1414<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="win32"><tt>llvm/win32</tt></a></div>
1415<div class="doc_text">
1416 <p>This directory contains build scripts and project files for use with
1417 Visual C++. This allows developers on Windows to build LLVM without the need
John Criswell3d8ba512004-12-08 17:53:54 +0000[diff] [blame]1418 for Cygwin. The contents of this directory should be considered experimental
Reid Spencerc4b09ba2004-12-08 16:18:26 +0000[diff] [blame]1419 at this time.
1420 </p>
1421</div>
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1422<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1423<div class="doc_section">
1424 <a name="tutorial">An Example Using the LLVM Tool Chain</a>
1425</div>
1426<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
Misha Brukmanc103adf2003-08-11 18:45:46 +0000[diff] [blame]1427
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1428<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1429
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1430<ol>
1431 <li>First, create a simple C file, name it 'hello.c':
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1432 <pre>
1433 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
1434 int main() {
1435 printf("hello world\n");
1436 return 0;
1437 }
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1438 </pre></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1439
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1440 <li><p>Next, compile the C file into a LLVM bytecode file:</p>
Reid Spencerd4694f92004-12-22 06:29:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1441 <p><tt>% llvm-gcc hello.c -o hello</tt></p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1442
Misha Brukmanf089cdf2004-06-22 18:48:58 +0000[diff] [blame]1443 <p>Note that you should have already built the tools and they have to be
1444 in your path, at least <tt>gccas</tt> and <tt>gccld</tt>.</p>
1445
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1446 <p>This will create two result files: <tt>hello</tt> and
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1447 <tt>hello.bc</tt>. The <tt>hello.bc</tt> is the LLVM bytecode that
1448 corresponds the the compiled program and the library facilities that it
1449 required. <tt>hello</tt> is a simple shell script that runs the bytecode
Chris Lattnera19a3db2004-05-01 11:40:07 +0000[diff] [blame]1450 file with <tt>lli</tt>, making the result directly executable. Note that
1451 all LLVM optimizations are enabled by default, so there is no need for a
1452 "-O3" switch.</p></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1453
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1454 <li><p>Run the program. To make sure the program ran, execute one of the
1455 following commands:</p>
John Criswell8df90e02003-06-11 20:46:40 +0000[diff] [blame]1456
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1457 <p><tt>% ./hello</tt></p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1458
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1459 <p>or</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1460
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1461 <p><tt>% lli hello.bc</tt></p></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1462
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1463 <li><p>Use the <tt>llvm-dis</tt> utility to take a look at the LLVM assembly
1464 code:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1465
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1466 <p><tt>% llvm-dis &lt; hello.bc | less</tt><p></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1467
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1468 <li><p>Compile the program to native assembly using the LLC code
1469 generator:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1470
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1471 <p><tt>% llc hello.bc -o hello.s</tt></p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1472
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1473 <li><p>Assemble the native assembly language file into a program:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1474
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1475 <p><b>Solaris:</b><tt>% /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -xarch=v9 hello.s -o hello.native</tt></p>
1476 <p><b>Others:</b><tt>% gcc hello.s -o hello.native</tt></p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1477
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1478 <li><p>Execute the native code program:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1479
Chris Lattnerb3bbcba2004-06-02 20:37:02 +0000[diff] [blame]1480 <p><tt>% ./hello.native</tt></p></li>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1481
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1482</ol>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1483
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1484</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1485
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1486<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1487<div class="doc_section">
1488 <a name="problems">Common Problems</a>
1489</div>
1490<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1491
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1492<div class="doc_text">
John Criswellce760f62003-07-03 16:01:38 +0000[diff] [blame]1493
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1494<p>If you are having problems building or using LLVM, or if you have any other
1495general questions about LLVM, please consult the <a href="FAQ.html">Frequently
1496Asked Questions</a> page.</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1497
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1498</div>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1499
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1500<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1501<div class="doc_section">
1502 <a name="links">Links</a>
1503</div>
1504<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1505
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1506<div class="doc_text">
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1507
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1508<p>This document is just an <b>introduction</b> to how to use LLVM to do
1509some simple things... there are many more interesting and complicated things
1510that you can do that aren't documented here (but we'll gladly accept a patch
1511if you want to write something up!). For more information about LLVM, check
1512out:</p>
John Criswell85ed3612003-06-12 19:34:44 +0000[diff] [blame]1513
Misha Brukman00c73d22003-11-07 19:43:14 +0000[diff] [blame]1514<ul>
1515 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/">LLVM homepage</a></li>
1516 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/doxygen/">LLVM doxygen tree</a></li>
1517 <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/Projects.html">Starting a Project
1518 that Uses LLVM</a></li>
1519</ul>
1520
1521</div>
1522
1523<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
1524
1525<hr>
Misha Brukman142207b2003-11-22 01:30:01 +0000[diff] [blame]1526<address>
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Misha Brukman142207b2003-11-22 01:30:01 +0000[diff] [blame]1532 <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a><br>
Reid Spencer77d90192004-09-05 20:50:22 +0000[diff] [blame]1533 <a href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/rspencer/">Reid Spencer</a><br>
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