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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>
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23 <p>Written by the LLVM Team</p>
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27 <h1><a name="instructions">Building llvm-gcc from Source</a></h1>
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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 <h1><a name="ada">Building the Ada front-end</a></h1>
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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 2.4 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 The LLVM parts of llvm-gcc are written in C++ so a C++ compiler is
92 needed to build them. The rest of gcc is written in C.
93 Some linux distributions provide a version of gcc that supports all
94 three languages (the Ada part often comes as an add-on package to
95 the rest of gcc). Otherwise it is possible to combine two versions
96 of gcc, one that supports Ada and C (such as the
97 <a href="http://libre.adacore.com/">2007 GNAT GPL Edition</a>)
98 and another which supports C++, see below.</p></li>
99 <li><p>Because the Ada front-end is experimental, it is wise to build the
100 compiler with checking enabled. This causes it to run much slower, but
101 helps catch mistakes in the compiler (please report any problems using
102 <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs">LLVM bugzilla</a>).</p></li>
105 <p>Supposing appropriate compilers are available, llvm-gcc with Ada support can
106 be built on an x86-32 linux box using the following recipe:</p>
109 <li><p>Download the <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/download.html">LLVM source</a>
112 <pre class="doc_code">
113 wget http://llvm.org/releases/2.4/llvm-2.4.tar.gz
114 tar xzf llvm-2.4.tar.gz
118 <p>or <a href="GettingStarted.html#checkout">check out the
119 latest version from subversion</a>:</p>
121 <pre class="doc_code">svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm</pre>
126 <a href="http://llvm.org/releases/download.html">llvm-gcc-4.2 source</a>
129 <pre class="doc_code">
130 wget http://llvm.org/releases/2.4/llvm-gcc-4.2-2.4.source.tar.gz
131 tar xzf llvm-gcc-4.2-2.4.source.tar.gz
132 mv llvm-gcc4.2-2.4.source llvm-gcc-4.2
135 <p>or <a href="GettingStarted.html#checkout">check out the
136 latest version from subversion</a>:</p>
138 <pre class="doc_code">
139 svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm-gcc-4.2/trunk llvm-gcc-4.2
143 <li><p>Make a build directory <tt>llvm-objects</tt> for llvm and make it the
144 current directory:</p>
146 <pre class="doc_code">
152 <li><p>Configure LLVM (here it is configured to install into <tt>/usr/local</tt>):</p>
154 <pre class="doc_code">
155 ../llvm/configure --prefix=<b>/usr/local</b>
158 <p>If you have a multi-compiler setup and the C++ compiler is not the
159 default, then you can configure like this:</p>
161 <pre class="doc_code">
162 CXX=<b>PATH_TO_C++_COMPILER</b> ../llvm/configure --prefix=<b>/usr/local</b>
166 <li><p>Build LLVM with checking enabled (use <tt>ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1</tt> to
167 build without checking):</p>
169 <pre class="doc_code">
170 make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=0
174 <li><p>Install LLVM (optional):</p>
176 <pre class="doc_code">
177 make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=0 install
181 <li><p>Make a build directory <tt>llvm-gcc-4.2-objects</tt> for llvm-gcc and make it the
182 current directory:</p>
184 <pre class="doc_code">
186 mkdir llvm-gcc-4.2-objects
187 cd llvm-gcc-4.2-objects
191 <li><p>Configure llvm-gcc (here it is configured to install into <tt>/usr/local</tt>).
192 The <tt>--enable-checking</tt> flag turns on sanity checks inside the compiler.
193 If you omit it then LLVM should be built with <tt>make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1</tt>.
194 Additional languages can be appended to the <tt>--enable-languages</tt> switch,
195 for example <tt>--enable-languages=ada,c,c++</tt>.</p>
197 <pre class="doc_code">
198 ../llvm-gcc-4.2/configure --prefix=<b>/usr/local</b> --enable-languages=ada,c \
199 --enable-checking --enable-llvm=$PWD/../llvm-objects \
200 --disable-bootstrap --disable-multilib
203 <p>If you have a multi-compiler setup, then you can configure like this:</p>
205 <pre class="doc_code">
206 export CC=<b>PATH_TO_C_AND_ADA_COMPILER</b>
207 export CXX=<b>PATH_TO_C++_COMPILER</b>
208 ../llvm-gcc-4.2/configure --prefix=<b>/usr/local</b> --enable-languages=ada,c \
209 --enable-checking --enable-llvm=$PWD/../llvm-objects \
210 --disable-bootstrap --disable-multilib
214 <li><p>Build and install the compiler:</p>
216 <pre class="doc_code">
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226 <h1><a name="fortran">Building the Fortran front-end</a></h1>
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229 <div class="doc_text">
230 <p>To build with support for Fortran, follow the directions in the top-level
231 <tt>README.LLVM</tt> file, adding ",fortran" to EXTRALANGS, for example:</p>
233 <pre class="doc_code">
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240 <h1><a name="license">License Information</a></h1>
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245 The LLVM GCC frontend is licensed to you under the GNU General Public License
246 and the GNU Lesser General Public License. Please see the files COPYING and
247 COPYING.LIB for more details.
251 More information is <a href="FAQ.html#license">available in the FAQ</a>.
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