<li>Read the documentation.</li>
<li>Read the documentation.</li>
<li>Remember that you were warned twice about reading the documentation.</li>
- <li>Install the GCC front end:
+ <li>Install the GCC front end if you intend to compile C or C++:
<ol>
<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-C-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
<li><tt>gunzip --stdout cfrontend.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
</li>
<li><tt>cd cfrontend/<i>platform</i><br>
./fixheaders</tt></li>
- <li>Add the cfrontend's "bin" directory to your PATH variable</li>
+ <li>Add the cfrontend's "bin" directory to your PATH variable.</li>
</ol></li>
- <li>Get the Source Code
+ <li>Get the LLVM Source Code
<ul>
- <li>With the distributed files:
+ <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">CVS</a>):
<ol>
<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
<li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-<i>version</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
- <li><tt>cd llvm</tt></li>
</ol></li>
- <li>With anonymous CVS access (or use a <a href="#mirror">mirror</a>):
- <ol>
- <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt></li>
- <li><tt>cvs -d
- :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm login</tt></li>
- <li>Hit the return key when prompted for the password.
- <li><tt>cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm
- co llvm</tt></li>
- <li><tt>cd llvm</tt></li>
- <li><tt>cvs up -P -d</tt></li>
- </ol></li>
</ul></li>
- <li>Get the Test Suite Source Code (<em>optional</em>)
+ <li><b>[Optional]</b> Get the Test Suite Source Code
<ul>
- <li>With the distributed files:
+ <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">CVS</a>):
<ol>
<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
<li><tt>cd llvm/projects</tt>
<li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-test-<i>version</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt>
- <li><tt>cd ..</tt></li>
</ol></li>
- <li>With anonymous CVS access (or use a <a href="#mirror">mirror</a>):
- <ol>
- <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt></li>
- <li><tt>cd llvm/projects</tt>
- <li><tt>cvs -d
- :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm login</tt></li>
- <li>Hit the return key when prompted for the password.
- <li><tt>cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm-cvs.cs.uiuc.edu:/var/cvs/llvm
- co llvm-test</tt></li>
- <li><tt>cd llvm-test</tt></li>
- <li><tt>cvs up -P -d</tt></li>
- <li><tt>cd ..</tt></li>
- </ol></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Configure the LLVM Build Environment
<ol>
- <li>Change directory to where you want to store the LLVM object
- files and run <tt>configure</tt> to configure the Makefiles and
- header files for the default platform. Useful options include:
+ <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-to-build-llvm</i></tt></li>
+ <li><tt><i>/path/to/llvm/</i>configure [options]</tt><br>
+ Some common options:
+
<ul>
<li><tt>--prefix=<i>directory</i></tt>
<p>Specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of where you
- want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed.</p></li>
+ want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed (default
+ <tt>/usr/local</tt>).</p></li>
<li><tt>--with-llvmgccdir=<i>directory</i></tt>
<p>Optionally, specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of the
- C/C++ FrontEnd installation to use with this LLVM configuration. If
+ C/C++ front end installation to use with this LLVM configuration. If
not specified, the PATH will be searched.</p></li>
<li><tt>--enable-spec2000=<i>directory</i></tt>
<p>Enable the SPEC2000 benchmarks for testing. The SPEC2000
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Linux</td>
- <td>x86<sup>1</sup></td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
<td>GCC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FreeBSD</td>
- <td>x86<sup>1</sup></td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
<td>GCC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>MacOS X<sup>2</sup></td>
+ <td>MacOS X<sup><a href="#pf_2">2</a></sup></td>
<td>PowerPC</td>
<td>GCC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cygwin/Win32</td>
- <td>x86<sup>1</sup></td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
+ <td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td>MinGW/Win32</td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a></sup></td>
<td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Linux</td>
- <td>amd64<sup>3</sup></td>
+ <td>amd64<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a></sup></td>
<td>GCC</td>
</tr>
</table>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Windows</td>
- <td>x86<sup>1</sup></td>
- <td>Visual Studio .NET<sup>4,5</sup>, MinGW</td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
+ <td>Visual Studio .NET<sup><a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
<tr>
- <td>AIX<sup>3,4</sup></td>
+ <td>AIX<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_4">4</a></sup></td>
<td>PowerPC</td>
<td>GCC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>Linux<sup>3,5</sup></td>
+ <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
<td>PowerPC</td>
<td>GCC</td>
</tr>
+
+<tr>
+ <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
+ <td>Alpha</td>
+ <td>GCC</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td>Linux<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
+ <td>Itanium (IA-64)</td>
+ <td>GCC</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td>HP-UX<sup><a href="#pf_7">7</a></sup></td>
+ <td>Itanium (IA-64)</td>
+ <td>HP aCC</td>
+</tr>
</table>
-<p>
-Notes:<br>
-<sup>1</sup> Code generation supported for Pentium processors and up<br>
-<sup>2</sup> Code generation supported for 32-bit ABI only<br>
-<sup>3</sup> No native code generation<br>
-<sup>4</sup> Build is not complete: one or more tools don't link<br>
-<sup>5</sup> The GCC-based C/C++ frontend does not build<br>
-</p>
+<p><b>Notes:</b></p>
+
+<div class="doc_notes">
+<ol>
+<li><a name="pf_1">Code generation supported for Pentium processors and
+up</a></li>
+<li><a name="pf_2">Code generation supported for 32-bit ABI only</a></li>
+<li><a name="pf_3">No native code generation</a></li>
+<li><a name="pf_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools don't link</a></li>
+<li><a name="pf_5">The GCC-based C/C++ frontend does not build</a></li>
+<li><a name="pf_6">The port is done using the MSYS shell.
+<a href="http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/">Download</a> and install
+bison (excl. M4.exe) and flex in that order. Build binutils-2.15 from source,
+if necessary.</li>
+<li><a name="pf_7">Native code generation exists but is not complete.</a></li>
+</ol>
+</div>
<p>Note that you will need about 1-3 GB of space for a full LLVM build in Debug
-mode, depending on the system (because of all the debug info), and the libraries
-appear in more than one of the tools that get linked, so there is some
-duplication. If you do not need many of the tools and you are space-conscious,
+mode, depending on the system (it is so large because of all the debugging
+information and the fact that the libraries are statically linked into multiple
+tools). If you do not need many of the tools and you are space-conscious,
you can disable them individually in <tt>llvm/tools/Makefile</tt>. The Release
build requires considerably less space.</p>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">GCC</a></td>
<td>3.4.2</td>
- <td>C/C++ compiler (<a href="#Note3">Note 3</a>)</td>
+ <td>C/C++ compiler<sup><a href="#sf1">1</a></sup></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo">TeXinfo</a></td>
+ <td>4.5</td>
+ <td>For building the CFE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html">Bison</a></td>
- <td>1.35</td>
+ <td>1.28, 1.35, 1.75, or 2.0 (not 1.85)</td>
<td>YACC compiler</td>
</tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="https://www.cvshome.org/downloads.html">CVS</a></td>
+ <td>≥1.11</td>
+ <td>CVS access to LLVM<sup><a href="#sf2">2</a></sup></td>
+ </tr>
+
<tr>
<td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/dejagnu">DejaGnu</a></td>
<td>1.4.2</td>
- <td>Automated test suite (<a href="#Note2">Note 2</a>)</td>
+ <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/">tcl</a></td>
<td>8.3, 8.4</td>
- <td>Automated test suite (<a href="#Note2">Note 2</a>)</td>
+ <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://expect.nist.gov/">expect</a></td>
<td>5.38.0</td>
- <td>Automated test suite (<a href="#Note2">Note 2</a>)</td>
+ <td>Automated test suite<sup><a href="#sf3">3</a></sup></td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="http://www.perl.com/download.csp">perl</a></td>
+ <td>≥5.6.0</td>
+ <td>Nightly tester, utilities</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/m4">GNU M4</a>
<td>1.4</td>
- <td>Macro processor for configuration (<a href="#Note1">Note 1</a>)</td>
+ <td>Macro processor for configuration<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf">GNU Autoconf</a></td>
<td>2.59</td>
- <td>Configuration script builder (<a href="#Note1">Note 1</a>)</td>
+ <td>Configuration script builder<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake">GNU Automake</a></td>
<td>1.9.2</td>
- <td>aclocal macro generator (<a href="#Note1">Note 1</a>)</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.perl.com/download.csp">perl</a></td>
- <td>≥5.6.0</td>
- <td>Nightly tester, utilities</td>
+ <td>aclocal macro generator<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libtool">libtool</a></td>
<td>1.5.10</td>
- <td>Shared library manager (<a href="#Note1">Note 1</a>)</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><a href="https://www.cvshome.org/downloads.html">CVS</a></td>
- <td>≥1.11</td>
- <td>CVS access to LLVM (<a href="#Note4">Note 4</a>)</td>
+ <td>Shared library manager<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
</tr>
</table>
- <p>Notes:</p>
+ <p><b>Notes:</b></p>
+ <div class="doc_notes">
<ol>
- <li><a name="Note1">If you want to make changes to the configure scripts,
- you will need GNU autoconf (2.59), and consequently, GNU M4 (version 1.4
- or higher). You will also need automake (1.9.2). We only use aclocal
- from that package.</a></li>
- <li><a name="Note2">Only needed if you want to run the automated test
- suite in the <tt>test</tt> directory.</a></li>
- </li>
- <li><a name="Note3">Only the C and C++ languages are needed so there's no
+ <li><a name="sf3">Only the C and C++ languages are needed so there's no
need to build the other languages for LLVM's purposes.</a> See
- <a href="#brokengcc">below</a> for specific version info.
- </li>
- <li><a name="Note4">You only need CVS if you intend to build from the
+ <a href="#brokengcc">below</a> for specific version info.</li>
+ <li><a name="sf2">You only need CVS if you intend to build from the
latest LLVM sources. If you're working from a release distribution, you
don't need CVS.</a></li>
+ <li><a name="sf3">Only needed if you want to run the automated test
+ suite in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.</a></li>
+ <li><a name="sf4">If you want to make changes to the configure scripts,
+ you will need GNU autoconf (2.59), and consequently, GNU M4 (version 1.4
+ or higher). You will also need automake (1.9.2). We only use aclocal
+ from that package.</a></li>
</ol>
+ </div>
+
<p>Additionally, your compilation host is expected to have the usual
plethora of Unix utilities. Specifically:</p>
<ul>
<p>LLVM is very demanding of the host C++ compiler, and as such tends to expose
bugs in the compiler. In particular, several versions of GCC crash when trying
to compile LLVM. We routinely use GCC 3.3.3 and GCC 3.4.0 and have had success
-with them. Other versions of GCC will probably work as well. GCC versions listed
+with them (however, see below). Other versions of GCC will probably
+work as well. GCC versions listed
here are known to not work. If you are using one of these versions, please try
to upgrade your GCC to something more recent. If you run into a problem with a
version of GCC not listed here, please <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu">let
<p><b>GCC 3.3.2</b>: This version of GCC suffered from a <a
href="http://gcc.gnu.org/PR13392">serious bug</a> which causes it to crash in
the "<tt>convert_from_eh_region_ranges_1</tt>" GCC function.</p>
+
+<p><b>Cygwin GCC 3.3.3</b>: The version of GCC 3.3.3 commonly shipped with
+ Cygwin does not work. Please <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html#cygwin">upgrade
+ to a newer version</a> if possible.</p>
+<p><b>SuSE GCC 3.3.3</b>: The version of GCC 3.3.3 shipped with SuSE 9.1 (and
+ possibly others) does not compile LLVM correctly (it appears that exception
+ handling is broken in some cases). Please download the FSF 3.3.3 or upgrade
+ to a newer version of GCC.</p>
+<p><b>IA-64 GCC 4.0.0</b>: The IA-64 version of GCC 4.0.0 is known to
+ miscompile LLVM.</p>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>
-In order to compile and use LLVM, you will need to set some environment
-variables. There are also some shell aliases which you may find useful.
-You can set these on the command line, or better yet, set them in your
-<tt>.cshrc</tt> or <tt>.profile</tt>.
+In order to compile and use LLVM, you may need to set some environment
+variables.
<dl>
<dt><tt>LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH</tt>=<tt>/path/to/your/bytecode/libs</tt></dt>
- <dd>This environment variable helps LLVM linking tools find the locations
- of your bytecode libraries. It is optional and provided only a convenience
- since you can specify the paths using the -L options of the tools.</dd>
-
- <dt><tt>alias llvmgcc='llvm-gcc'</tt></dt>
- <dt><tt>alias llvmg++='llvm-g++'</tt></dt>
- <dd></dt>These aliases allow you to use the LLVM C and C++ front ends
- under alternative names. It is assumed that llvm-gcc and llvm-g++ are
- in your path. The LLVM makefiles will use llvm-gcc and llvm-g++ directly.</dd>
+ <dd>[Optional] This environment variable helps LLVM linking tools find the
+ locations of your bytecode libraries. It is provided only as a
+ convenience since you can specify the paths using the -L options of the
+ tools and the C/C++ front-end will automatically use the bytecode files
+ installed in its
+ <tt>lib</tt> directory.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<dd>Source release for the LLVM libraries and tools.<br/></dd>
<dt><tt>llvm-test-x.y.tar.gz</tt></dt>
- <dd>Source release for the LLVM test suite.</tt></dd>
+ <dd>Source release for the LLVM test suite.</dd>
<dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.source.tar.gz</tt></dt>
<dd>Source release of the GCC front end.<br/></dd>
<dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.i386-unknown-freebsd5.1.tar.gz</tt></dt>
<dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for FreeBSD/x86.<br/></dd>
- <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0.tar.gz</tt></dt>
+ <dt><tt>cfrontend-x.y.powerpc-apple-darwin7.8.0.tar.gz</tt></dt>
<dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for MacOS X/PPC.<br/></dd>
</dl>
labels:</p>
<ul>
+<li>Release 1.6: <b>RELEASE_16</b></li>
+<li>Release 1.5: <b>RELEASE_15</b></li>
<li>Release 1.4: <b>RELEASE_14</b></li>
<li>Release 1.3: <b>RELEASE_13</b></li>
<li>Release 1.2: <b>RELEASE_12</b></li>
<a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">Bootstrapping the LLVM C/C++ Front-End</a>
for details on building the C/C++ Front End.</dd>
<dt><i>--with-tclinclude</i></dt>
- <dd>Path to the tcl include directory under which the <tt>tclsh</tt> can be
+ <dd>Path to the tcl include directory under which <tt>tclsh</tt> can be
found. Use this if you have multiple tcl installations on your machine and you
want to use a specific one (8.x) for LLVM. LLVM only uses tcl for running the
dejagnu based test suite in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. If you don't specify this
- option, the LLVM configure script will search for tcl 8.4 and 8.3 releases.
+ option, the LLVM configure script will search for the tcl 8.4 and 8.3
+ releases.
<p></p>
</dd>
<dt><i>--enable-optimized</i></dt>
unoptimized build (also known as a debug build).
<p></p>
</dd>
+ <dt><i>--enable-debug-runtime</i></dt>
+ <dd>
+ Enables debug symbols in the runtime libraries. The default is to strip
+ debug symbols from the runtime libraries.
+ </dd>
<dt><i>--enable-jit</i></dt>
<dd>
Compile the Just In Time (JIT) compiler functionality. This is not
to explicitly enable it if you want it.
<p></p>
</dd>
+ <dt><i>--enable-targets=</i><tt>target-option</tt></dt>
+ <dd>Controls which targets will be built and linked into llc. The default
+ value for <tt>target_options</tt> is "all" which builds and links all
+ available targets. The value "host-only" can be specified to build only a
+ native compiler (no cross-compiler targets available). The "native" target is
+ selected as the target of the build host. You can also specify a comma
+ separated list of target names that you want available in llc. The target
+ names use all lower case. The current set of targets is: <br/>
+ <tt>alpha, ia64, powerpc, skeleton, sparc, x86</tt>.
+ <p></p></dd>
<dt><i>--enable-doxygen</i></dt>
<dd>Look for the doxygen program and enable construction of doxygen based
documentation from the source code. This is disabled by default because
<div class="doc_text">
<p>
-If you're running on a
linux system that supports the "<a
+If you're running on a
Linux system that supports the "<a
href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/linux/binfmt_misc.html">
binfmt_misc</a>"
module, and you have root access on the system, you can set your system up to
execute LLVM bytecode files directly. To do this, use commands like this (the
first command may not be required if you are already using the module):</p>
+<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
$ mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
- $ echo ':llvm:M::llvm::/path/to/lli:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
+ $ echo ':llvm:M::llvm::/path/to/lli:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register
$ chmod u+x hello.bc (if needed)
$ ./hello.bc
</pre>
+</div>
<p>
This allows you to execute LLVM bytecode files directly. Thanks to Jack
<dd> This directory contains files that describe various target architectures
for code generation. For example, the <tt>llvm/lib/Target/SparcV9</tt>
directory holds the Sparc machine description while
- <tt>llvm/lib/Target/CBackend</tt> implements the LLVM-to-C converter</dd>
+ <tt>llvm/lib/Target/CBackend</tt> implements the LLVM-to-C converter.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/CodeGen/</b></tt></dt>
<dd> This directory contains the major parts of the code generator: Instruction
module contains a comprehensive correctness, performance, and benchmarking
test
suite for LLVM. It is a separate CVS module because not every LLVM user is
- interested in downloading or building such a comprehensive test. For further
- details on this test suite, please see the
+ interested in downloading or building such a comprehensive test suite. For
+ further details on this test suite, please see the
<a href="TestingGuide.html">Testing Guide</a> document.</p>
</div>
all from one command line. <tt>llvmc</tt> also takes care of processing the
dependent libraries found in bytecode. This reduces the need to get the
traditional <tt>-l<name></tt> options right on the command line. Please
- note that this tool is new in 1.4 and considered experimental. It will be
- fully supported in 1.5.</dd>
+ note that this tool, while functional, is still experimental and not feature
+ complete.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm-ar</b></tt></dt>
<dd>The archiver produces an archive containing
<dd><tt>llvm-ld</tt> is very similar to gccld and provides a general purpose
and extensible linker for LLVM. This is the linker invoked by <tt>llvmc</tt>.
It allows optimization modules to be loaded so that language specific
- optimizations can be applied at link time. Please note that this tool is new
- in LLVM 1.4 and still considered experimental. It will be fully supported in
- LLVM 1.5.</dd>
+ optimizations can be applied at link time. This tool is considered
+ experimental.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm-link</b></tt></dt>
<dd><tt>llvm-link</tt>, not surprisingly, links multiple LLVM modules into
<dt><tt><b>llc</b></tt></dt>
<dd> <tt>llc</tt> is the LLVM backend compiler, which
- translates LLVM bytecode to a SPARC or x86 assembly file, or to C code (with
+ translates LLVM bytecode to a native code assembly file or to C code (with
the -march=c option).</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm-gcc</b></tt></dt>
that has been retargeted to emit LLVM code as the machine code output. It
works just like any other GCC compiler, taking the typical <tt>-c, -S, -E,
-o</tt> options that are typically used. The source code for the
- <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> tool is currently not included in the LLVM CVS tree
- because it is quite large and not very interesting.
+ <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> tool is available as a separate CVS module.
<blockquote>
<dl>
<dt><tt><b>gccas</b></tt></dt>
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