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12 Building the LLVM GCC Front-End
16 <li><a href="#instructions">Building llvm-gcc from Source</a></li>
17 <li><a href="#ada">Building the Ada front-end</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#fortran">Building the Fortran front-end</a></li>
19 <li><a href="#license">License Information</a></li>
22 <div class="doc_author">
23 <p>Written by the LLVM Team</p>
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27 <h2><a name="instructions">Building llvm-gcc from Source</a></h2>
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32 <p>This section describes how to acquire and build llvm-gcc 4.2, which is based
33 on the GCC 4.2.1 front-end. Supported languages are Ada, C, C++, Fortran,
34 Objective-C and Objective-C++. Note that the instructions for building these
35 front-ends are completely different (and much easier!) than those for building
36 llvm-gcc3 in the past.</p>
39 <li><p>Retrieve the appropriate llvm-gcc-4.2-<i>version</i>.source.tar.gz
40 archive from the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/">LLVM web
43 <p>It is also possible to download the sources of the llvm-gcc front end
44 from a read-only mirror using subversion. To check out the 4.2 code
45 for first time use:</p>
47 <div class="doc_code">
49 svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm-gcc-4.2/trunk <i>dst-directory</i>
53 <p>After that, the code can be be updated in the destination directory
56 <div class="doc_code">
60 <p>The mirror is brought up to date every evening.</p></li>
62 <li>Follow the directions in the top-level <tt>README.LLVM</tt> file for
63 up-to-date instructions on how to build llvm-gcc. See below for building
64 with support for Ada or Fortran.
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70 <h2><a name="ada">Building the Ada front-end</a></h2>
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74 <p>Building with support for Ada amounts to following the directions in the
75 top-level <tt>README.LLVM</tt> file, adding ",ada" to EXTRALANGS, for example:
76 <tt>EXTRALANGS=,ada</tt></p>
78 <p>There are some complications however:</p>
81 <li><p>The only platform for which the Ada front-end is known to build is
82 32 bit intel x86 running linux. It is unlikely to build for other
83 systems without some work.</p></li>
84 <li><p>The build requires having a compiler that supports Ada, C and C++.
85 The Ada front-end is written in Ada so an Ada compiler is needed to
86 build it. Compilers known to work with the
87 <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/download.html">LLVM 2.7 release</a>
88 are <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html">gcc-4.2</a> and the
89 2005, 2006 and 2007 versions of the
90 <a href="http://libre.adacore.com/">GNAT GPL Edition</a>.
91 <b>GNAT GPL 2008, gcc-4.3 and later will not work</b>.
92 The LLVM parts of llvm-gcc are written in C++ so a C++ compiler is
93 needed to build them. The rest of gcc is written in C.
94 Some linux distributions provide a version of gcc that supports all
95 three languages (the Ada part often comes as an add-on package to
96 the rest of gcc). Otherwise it is possible to combine two versions
97 of gcc, one that supports Ada and C (such as the
98 <a href="http://libre.adacore.com/">2007 GNAT GPL Edition</a>)
99 and another which supports C++, see below.</p></li>
100 <li><p>Because the Ada front-end is experimental, it is wise to build the
101 compiler with checking enabled. This causes it to run much slower, but
102 helps catch mistakes in the compiler (please report any problems using
103 <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/">LLVM bugzilla</a>).</p></li>
104 <li><p>The Ada front-end <a href="http://llvm.org/PR2007">fails to
105 bootstrap</a>, due to lack of LLVM support for
106 <tt>setjmp</tt>/<tt>longjmp</tt> style exception handling (used
107 internally by the compiler), so you must specify
108 <tt>--disable-bootstrap</tt>.</p></li>
111 <p>Supposing appropriate compilers are available, llvm-gcc with Ada support can
112 be built on an x86-32 linux box using the following recipe:</p>
115 <li><p>Download the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/download.html">LLVM source</a>
118 <pre class="doc_code">
119 wget http://llvm.org/releases/2.7/llvm-2.7.tgz
124 <p>or <a href="GettingStarted.html#checkout">check out the
125 latest version from subversion</a>:</p>
127 <pre class="doc_code">svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm</pre>
132 <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/download.html">llvm-gcc-4.2 source</a>
135 <pre class="doc_code">
136 wget http://llvm.org/releases/2.7/llvm-gcc-4.2-2.7.source.tgz
137 tar xzf llvm-gcc-4.2-2.7.source.tgz
138 mv llvm-gcc-4.2-2.7.source llvm-gcc-4.2
141 <p>or <a href="GettingStarted.html#checkout">check out the
142 latest version from subversion</a>:</p>
144 <pre class="doc_code">
145 svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm-gcc-4.2/trunk llvm-gcc-4.2
149 <li><p>Make a build directory <tt>llvm-objects</tt> for llvm and make it the
150 current directory:</p>
152 <pre class="doc_code">
158 <li><p>Configure LLVM (here it is configured to install into <tt>/usr/local</tt>):</p>
160 <pre class="doc_code">
161 ../llvm/configure --prefix=<b>/usr/local</b> --enable-optimized --enable-assertions
164 <p>If you have a multi-compiler setup and the C++ compiler is not the
165 default, then you can configure like this:</p>
167 <pre class="doc_code">
168 CXX=<b>PATH_TO_C++_COMPILER</b> ../llvm/configure --prefix=<b>/usr/local</b> --enable-optimized --enable-assertions
171 <p>To compile without checking (not recommended), replace
172 <tt>--enable-assertions</tt> with <tt>--disable-assertions</tt>.</p>
176 <li><p>Build LLVM:</p>
178 <pre class="doc_code">
183 <li><p>Install LLVM (optional):</p>
185 <pre class="doc_code">
190 <li><p>Make a build directory <tt>llvm-gcc-4.2-objects</tt> for llvm-gcc and make it the
191 current directory:</p>
193 <pre class="doc_code">
195 mkdir llvm-gcc-4.2-objects
196 cd llvm-gcc-4.2-objects
200 <li><p>Configure llvm-gcc (here it is configured to install into <tt>/usr/local</tt>).
201 The <tt>--enable-checking</tt> flag turns on sanity checks inside the compiler.
202 To turn off these checks (not recommended), replace <tt>--enable-checking</tt>
203 with <tt>--disable-checking</tt>.
204 Additional languages can be appended to the <tt>--enable-languages</tt> switch,
205 for example <tt>--enable-languages=ada,c,c++</tt>.</p>
207 <pre class="doc_code">
208 ../llvm-gcc-4.2/configure --prefix=<b>/usr/local</b> --enable-languages=ada,c \
209 --enable-checking --enable-llvm=$PWD/../llvm-objects \
210 --disable-bootstrap --disable-multilib
213 <p>If you have a multi-compiler setup, then you can configure like this:</p>
215 <pre class="doc_code">
216 export CC=<b>PATH_TO_C_AND_ADA_COMPILER</b>
217 export CXX=<b>PATH_TO_C++_COMPILER</b>
218 ../llvm-gcc-4.2/configure --prefix=<b>/usr/local</b> --enable-languages=ada,c \
219 --enable-checking --enable-llvm=$PWD/../llvm-objects \
220 --disable-bootstrap --disable-multilib
224 <li><p>Build and install the compiler:</p>
226 <pre class="doc_code">
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236 <h2><a name="fortran">Building the Fortran front-end</a></h2>
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240 <p>To build with support for Fortran, follow the directions in the top-level
241 <tt>README.LLVM</tt> file, adding ",fortran" to EXTRALANGS, for example:</p>
243 <pre class="doc_code">
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250 <h2><a name="license">License Information</a></h2>
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255 The LLVM GCC frontend is licensed to you under the GNU General Public License
256 and the GNU Lesser General Public License. Please see the files COPYING and
257 COPYING.LIB for more details.
261 More information is <a href="FAQ.html#license">available in the FAQ</a>.
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