<li><a href="#quickstart">Getting Started Quickly (A Summary)</a>
<li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a>
- <li><a href="#software">Software</a>
- <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
+ <li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#software">Software</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a></li>
</ol></li>
<li><a href="#starting">Getting Started with LLVM</a>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#terminology">Terminology and Notation</a>
- <li><a href="#environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a>
- <li><a href="#unpack">Unpacking the LLVM Archives</a>
- <li><a href="#checkout">Checkout LLVM from CVS</a>
- <li><a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a>
- <li><a href="#config">Local LLVM Configuration</a>
- <li><a href="#compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a>
- <li><a href="#cross-compile">Cross-Compiling LLVM</a>
- <li><a href="#objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a>
- <li><a href="#optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a>
+ <li><a href="#terminology">Terminology and Notation</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#environment">Setting Up Your Environment</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#unpack">Unpacking the LLVM Archives</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#checkout">Checkout LLVM from Subversion</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#config">Local LLVM Configuration</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#compile">Compiling the LLVM Suite Source Code</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#cross-compile">Cross-Compiling LLVM</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#objfiles">The Location of LLVM Object Files</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#optionalconfig">Optional Configuration Items</a></li>
</ol></li>
<li><a href="#layout">Program layout</a>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#cvsdir"><tt>CVS</tt> directories</a>
- <li><a href="#examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#include"><tt>llvm/include</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#lib"><tt>llvm/lib</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#projects"><tt>llvm/projects</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#test"><tt>llvm/test</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#llvmtest"><tt>llvm-test</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#tools"><tt>llvm/tools</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#utils"><tt>llvm/utils</tt></a>
- <li><a href="#win32"><tt>llvm/win32</tt></a>
+ <li><a href="#examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#include"><tt>llvm/include</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#lib"><tt>llvm/lib</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#projects"><tt>llvm/projects</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#test"><tt>llvm/test</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#llvmtest"><tt>llvm-test</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tools"><tt>llvm/tools</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#utils"><tt>llvm/utils</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#win32"><tt>llvm/win32</tt></a></li>
</ol></li>
<li><a href="#tutorial">An Example Using the LLVM Tool Chain</a>
<ol>
<li><a href="#tutorial4">Example with llvm-gcc4</a></li>
- <li><a href="#tutorial3">Example with llvm-gcc3</a></li>
</ol>
<li><a href="#problems">Common Problems</a>
<li><a href="#links">Links</a>
<p>First, LLVM comes in two pieces. The first piece is the LLVM suite. This
contains all of the tools, libraries, and header files needed to use the low
-level virtual machine. It contains an assembler, disassembler, bytecode
-analyzer and bytecode optimizer. It also contains a test suite that can be
+level virtual machine. It contains an assembler, disassembler, bitcode
+analyzer and bitcode optimizer. It also contains a test suite that can be
used to test the LLVM tools and the GCC front end.</p>
<p>The second piece is the GCC front end. This component provides a version of
-GCC that compiles C and C++ code into LLVM bytecode. Currently, the GCC front
-end is a modified version of GCC 3.4 (we track the GCC 3.4 development). Once
-compiled into LLVM bytecode, a program can be manipulated with the LLVM tools
+GCC that compiles C and C++ code into LLVM bitcode. Currently, the GCC front
+end uses the GCC parser to convert code to LLVM. Once
+compiled into LLVM bitcode, a program can be manipulated with the LLVM tools
from the LLVM suite.</p>
<p>
<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 if you intend to compile C or C++:
+ <li>Install the llvm-gcc-4.2 front end if you intend to compile C or C++
+ (see <a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a> for details):</li>
<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><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-gcc-4.2-<i>version</i>-<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -</tt></li>
+ <li><tt><i>install-binutils-binary-from-MinGW</i></tt> (Windows only)</li>
+ <li>Note: If the binary extension is "<tt>.bz</tt>" use <tt>bunzip2</tt> instead of <tt>gunzip</tt>.</li>
+ <li>Note: On Windows, use <a href="http://www.7-zip.org">7-Zip</a> or a similar archiving tool.</li>
+ <li>Add <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>'s "<tt>bin</tt>" directory to your <tt>PATH</tt> environment variable.</li>
</ol></li>
<li>Get the LLVM Source Code
<ul>
- <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">CVS</a>):
+ <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">SVN</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><b>[Optional]</b> Get the Test Suite Source Code
<ul>
- <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">CVS</a>):
+ <li>With the distributed files (or use <a href="#checkout">SVN</a>):
<ol>
<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
<li><tt>cd llvm/projects</tt>
<li><tt>--with-llvmgccdir=<i>directory</i></tt>
<p>Optionally, specify for <i>directory</i> the full pathname of the
C/C++ front end installation to use with this LLVM configuration. If
- not specified, the PATH will be searched.</p></li>
+ not specified, the PATH will be searched. This is only needed if you
+ want to run the testsuite or do some special kinds of LLVM builds.</p></li>
<li><tt>--enable-spec2000=<i>directory</i></tt>
<p>Enable the SPEC2000 benchmarks for testing. The SPEC2000
benchmarks should be available in
<ol>
<li><tt>gmake -k |& tee gnumake.out
# this is csh or tcsh syntax</tt></li>
- <li>If you get an "internal compiler error (ICE)" see <a href="#brokengcc">below</a>.</li>
+ <li>If you get an "internal compiler error (ICE)" or test failures, see
+ <a href="#brokengcc">below</a>.</li>
</ol>
</ol>
<th>Arch</th>
<th>Compilers</th>
</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td>AuroraUX</td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
+ <td>GCC</td>
+</tr>
<tr>
<td>Linux</td>
<td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
<td>GCC</td>
</tr>
+<tr>
+ <td>Linux</td>
+ <td>amd64</td>
+ <td>GCC</td>
+</tr>
<tr>
<td>Solaris</td>
<td>V9 (Ultrasparc)</td>
<td>GCC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>MacOS X<sup><a href="#pf_2">2</a></sup></td>
+ <td>MacOS X<sup><a href="#pf_2">2</a>,<a href="#pf_9">9</a></sup></td>
<td>x86</td>
<td>GCC</td>
-
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cygwin/Win32</td>
- <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_8">8</a></sup></td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_8">8</a>,
+ <a href="#pf_11">11</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>,<a href="#pf_8">8</a></sup></td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a>,
+ <a href="#pf_8">8</a>, <a href="#pf_10">10</a></sup></td>
<td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
</tr>
-<tr>
- <td>Linux</td>
- <td>amd64<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a></sup></td>
- <td>GCC</td>
-</tr>
</table>
<p>LLVM has partial support for the following platforms:</p>
<tr>
<td>Windows</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>
+ <td>Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or higher<sup><a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
<tr>
<td>AIX<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_4">4</a></sup></td>
<td>PowerPC</td>
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_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools do not link or function</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>
-<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. Bison & flex can be also grabbed from GNUWin32 sf.net
-project.</li>
+<li><a name="pf_6">The port is done using the MSYS shell.</a></li>
<li><a name="pf_7">Native code generation exists but is not complete.</a></li>
<li><a name="pf_8">Binutils</a> up to post-2.17 has bug in bfd/cofflink.c
preventing LLVM from building correctly. Several workarounds have been
future. We highly recommend that you rebuild your current binutils with the
patch from <a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2659">
Binutils bugzilla</a>, if it wasn't already applied.</li>
+<li><a name="pf_9">XCode 2.5 and gcc 4.0.1</a> (Apple Build 5370) will trip
+ internal LLVM assert messages when compiled for Release at optimization
+ levels greater than 0 (i.e., <i>"-O1"</i> and higher).
+ Add <i>OPTIMIZE_OPTION="-O0"</i> to the build command line
+ if compiling for LLVM Release or bootstrapping the LLVM toolchain.</li>
+<li><a name="pf_10">For MSYS/MinGW on Windows, be sure to install the MSYS
+ version of the perl package, and be sure it appears in your path
+ before any Windows-based versions such as Strawberry Perl and
+ ActivePerl, as these have Windows-specifics that will cause the
+ build to fail.</a></li>
+<li><a name="pf_11">In general, LLVM modules requiring dynamic linking can
+ not be built on Windows. However, you can build LLVM tools using
+ <i>"make tools-only"</i>.</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 (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>
+tools). If you do not need many of the tools and you are space-conscious, you
+can pass <tt>ONLY_TOOLS="tools you need"</tt> to make. The Release build
+requires considerably less space.</p>
<p>The LLVM suite <i>may</i> compile on other platforms, but it is not
guaranteed to do so. If compilation is successful, the LLVM utilities should be
-able to assemble, disassemble, analyze, and optimize LLVM bytecode. Code
+able to assemble, disassemble, analyze, and optimize LLVM bitcode. Code
generation should work as well, although the generated native code may not work
on your platform.</p>
<p>The GCC front end is not very portable at the moment. If you want to get it
to work on another platform, you can download a copy of the source and <a
-href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">try to compile it</a> on your platform.</p>
+href="GCCFEBuildInstrs.html">try to compile it</a> on your platform.</p>
</div>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/flex">Flex</a></td>
- <td>2.5.4</td>
- <td>LEX compiler</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html">Bison</a></td>
- <td>1.28, 1.35, 1.75, 1.875d, 2.0, or 2.1<br>(not 1.85 or 1.875)</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>
+ <td><a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html">SVN</a></td>
+ <td>≥1.3</td>
+ <td>Subversion access to LLVM<sup><a href="#sf2">2</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf">GNU Autoconf</a></td>
- <td>2.59</td>
+ <td>2.60</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>1.9.6</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>1.5.22</td>
<td>Shared library manager<sup><a href="#sf4">4</a></sup></td>
</tr>
<li><a name="sf1">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="sf2">You only need CVS if you intend to build from the
+ <li><a name="sf2">You only need Subversion 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>
+ don't need Subversion.</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,
<li><b>date</b> - print the current date/time </li>
<li><b>echo</b> - print to standard output</li>
<li><b>egrep</b> - extended regular expression search utility</li>
- <li><b>etags</b> - C/C++ tag file creator for vim/emacs</li>
<li><b>find</b> - find files/dirs in a file system</li>
<li><b>grep</b> - regular expression search utility</li>
<li><b>gzip*</b> - gzip command for distribution generation</li>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection">
- <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC</a>
+ <a name="brokengcc">Broken versions of GCC and other tools</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<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, 3.4.0, and Apple 4.0.1
-successfully with them (however, see below). Other versions of GCC will
-probably work as well. GCC versions listed
+successfully with them (however, see important notes 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
problems in the STL that effectively prevent it from compiling LLVM.
</p>
-<p><b>GCC 3.2.2</b>: This version of GCC fails to compile LLVM.</p>
+<p><b>GCC 3.2.2 and 3.2.3</b>: These versions of GCC fails to compile LLVM with
+a bogus template error. This was fixed in later GCCs.</p>
<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
+ Cygwin does not work. Please <a href="GCCFEBuildInstrs.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>GCC 3.4.0 on linux/x86 (32-bit)</b>: GCC miscompiles portions of the
+ code generator, causing an infinite loop in the llvm-gcc build when built
+ with optimizations enabled (i.e. a release build).</p>
+<p><b>GCC 3.4.2 on linux/x86 (32-bit)</b>: GCC miscompiles portions of the
+ code generator at -O3, as with 3.4.0. However gcc 3.4.2 (unlike 3.4.0)
+ correctly compiles LLVM at -O2. A work around is to build release LLVM
+ builds with "make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 OPTIMIZE_OPTION=-O2 ..."</p>
+<p><b>GCC 3.4.x on X86-64/amd64</b>: GCC <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1056">
+ miscompiles portions of LLVM</a>.</p>
+<p><b>GCC 3.4.4 (CodeSourcery ARM 2005q3-2)</b>: this compiler miscompiles LLVM
+ when building with optimizations enabled. It appears to work with
+ "<tt>make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 OPTIMIZE_OPTION=-O1</tt>" or build a debug
+ build.</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>
<p><b>Apple Xcode 2.3</b>: GCC crashes when compiling LLVM at -O3 (which is the
default with ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1. To work around this, build with
"ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 OPTIMIZE_OPTION=-O2".</p>
+<p><b>GCC 4.1.1</b>: GCC fails to build LLVM with template concept check errors
+ compiling some files. At the time of this writing, GCC mainline (4.2)
+ did not share the problem.</p>
+<p><b>GCC 4.1.1 on X86-64/amd64</b>: GCC <a href="http://llvm.org/PR1063">
+ miscompiles portions of LLVM</a> when compiling llvm itself into 64-bit
+ code. LLVM will appear to mostly work but will be buggy, e.g. failing
+ portions of its testsuite.</p>
+<p><b>GCC 4.1.2 on OpenSUSE</b>: Seg faults during libstdc++ build and on x86_64
+platforms compiling md5.c gets a mangled constant.</p>
+<p><b>GCC 4.1.2 (20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) on Debian</b>: Appears
+to miscompile parts of LLVM 2.4. One symptom is ValueSymbolTable complaining
+about symbols remaining in the table on destruction.</p>
+<p><b>GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)</b>: Suffers from the same symptoms
+as the previous one. It appears to work with ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=0 (the default).</p>
+<p><b>Cygwin GCC 4.3.2 20080827 (beta) 2</b>:
+ Users <a href="http://llvm.org/PR4145">reported</a> various problems related
+ with link errors when using this GCC version.</p>
+<p><b>Debian GCC 4.3.2 on X86</b>: Crashes building some files in LLVM 2.6.</p>
+<p><b>GCC 4.3.3 (Debian 4.3.3-10) on ARM</b>: Miscompiles parts of LLVM 2.6
+when optimizations are turned on. The symptom is an infinite loop in
+FoldingSetImpl::RemoveNode while running the code generator.</p>
+<p><b>GNU ld 2.16.X</b>. Some 2.16.X versions of the ld linker will produce very
+long warning messages complaining that some ".gnu.linkonce.t.*" symbol was
+defined in a discarded section. You can safely ignore these messages as they are
+erroneous and the linkage is correct. These messages disappear using ld
+2.17.</p>
+
+<p><b>GNU binutils 2.17</b>: Binutils 2.17 contains <a
+href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3111">a bug</a> which
+causes huge link times (minutes instead of seconds) when building LLVM. We
+recommend upgrading to a newer version (2.17.50.0.4 or later).</p>
+
+<p><b>GNU Binutils 2.19.1 Gold</b>: This version of Gold contained
+<a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9836">a bug</a>
+which causes intermittent failures when building LLVM with position independent
+code. The symptom is an error about cyclic dependencies. We recommend
+upgrading to a newer version of Gold.</p>
+
</div>
This is where the LLVM GCC Front End is installed.
<p>
For the pre-built GCC front end binaries, the LLVMGCCDIR is
- <tt>cfrontend/<i>platform</i>/llvm-gcc</tt>.
+ <tt>llvm-gcc/<i>platform</i>/llvm-gcc</tt>.
</dl>
</div>
variables.
<dl>
- <dt><tt>LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH</tt>=<tt>/path/to/your/bytecode/libs</tt></dt>
+ <dt><tt>LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH</tt>=<tt>/path/to/your/bitcode/libs</tt></dt>
<dd>[Optional] This environment variable helps LLVM linking tools find the
- locations of your bytecode libraries. It is provided only as a
+ locations of your bitcode 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
+ tools and the C/C++ front-end will automatically use the bitcode files
installed in its
<tt>lib</tt> directory.</dd>
</dl>
<p>The files are as follows, with <em>x.y</em> marking the version number:
<dl>
<dt><tt>llvm-x.y.tar.gz</tt></dt>
- <dd>Source release for the LLVM libraries and tools.<br/></dd>
+ <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.</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.i686-redhat-linux-gnu.tar.gz</tt></dt>
- <dd>Binary release of the GCC front end for Linux/x86.<br/></dd>
-
- <dt><tt>llvm-gcc4-x.y.source.tar.gz</tt></dt>
- <dd>Source release of the llvm-gcc4 front end. See README.LLVM in the root
- directory for build instructions.<br/></dd>
+ <dt><tt>llvm-gcc-4.2-x.y.source.tar.gz</tt></dt>
+ <dd>Source release of the llvm-gcc-4.2 front end. See README.LLVM in the root
+ directory for build instructions.<br></dd>
- <dt><tt>llvm-gcc4-x.y.powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0.tar.gz</tt></dt>
- <dd>Binary release of the llvm-gcc4 front end for MacOS X/PowerPC.<br/></dd>
+ <dt><tt>llvm-gcc-4.2-x.y-platform.tar.gz</tt></dt>
+ <dd>Binary release of the llvm-gcc-4.2 front end for a specific platform.<br></dd>
- <dt><tt>llvm-gcc4-x.y.i686-apple-darwin8.6.1.tar.gz</tt></dt>
- <dd>Binary release of the llvm-gcc4 front end for MacOS X/X86.<br/></dd>
</dl>
-<p>It is also possible to download the sources of the llvm-gcc4 front end from a
-read-only subversion mirror at
-svn://anonsvn.opensource.apple.com/svn/llvm/trunk. </p>
-
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection">
- <a name="checkout">Checkout LLVM from CVS</a>
+ <a name="checkout">Checkout LLVM from Subversion</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>If you have access to our CVS repository, you can get a fresh copy of
-the entire source code. All you need to do is check it out from CVS as
+<p>If you have access to our Subversion repository, you can get a fresh copy of
+the entire source code. All you need to do is check it out from Subversion as
follows:</p>
<ul>
-<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt>
- <li><tt>cvs -d :pserver:anon@llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm login</tt>
- <li>Hit the return key when prompted for the password.
- <li><tt>cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm co
- llvm</tt>
+ <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-llvm-to-live</i></tt></li>
+ <li>Read-Only: <tt>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm</tt></li>
+ <li>Read-Write:<tt>svn co https://user@llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk
+ llvm</tt></li>
</ul>
+
<p>This will create an '<tt>llvm</tt>' directory in the current
directory and fully populate it with the LLVM source code, Makefiles,
test directories, and local copies of documentation files.</p>
<p>If you want to get a specific release (as opposed to the most recent
-revision), you can specify a label. The following releases have the following
-labels:</p>
+revision), you can checkout it from the '<tt>tags</tt>' directory (instead of
+'<tt>trunk</tt>'). The following releases are located in the following
+subdirectories of the '<tt>tags</tt>' directory:</p>
<ul>
+<li>Release 2.6: <b>RELEASE_26</b></li>
+<li>Release 2.5: <b>RELEASE_25</b></li>
+<li>Release 2.4: <b>RELEASE_24</b></li>
+<li>Release 2.3: <b>RELEASE_23</b></li>
+<li>Release 2.2: <b>RELEASE_22</b></li>
+<li>Release 2.1: <b>RELEASE_21</b></li>
+<li>Release 2.0: <b>RELEASE_20</b></li>
+<li>Release 1.9: <b>RELEASE_19</b></li>
+<li>Release 1.8: <b>RELEASE_18</b></li>
<li>Release 1.7: <b>RELEASE_17</b></li>
<li>Release 1.6: <b>RELEASE_16</b></li>
<li>Release 1.5: <b>RELEASE_15</b></li>
</ul>
<p>If you would like to get the LLVM test suite (a separate package as of 1.4),
-you get it from the CVS repository:</p>
+you get it from the Subversion repository:</p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
- cd llvm/projects
- cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm co llvm-test
+% cd llvm/projects
+% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk llvm-test
</pre>
+</div>
+
<p>By placing it in the <tt>llvm/projects</tt>, it will be automatically
configured by the LLVM configure script as well as automatically updated when
-you run <tt>cvs update</tt>.</p>
-
-<p>If you would like to get the GCC 3.4 front end source code, you can also get it from the CVS repository:</p>
-
-<pre>
- cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anon@llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm co llvm-gcc
-</pre>
+you run <tt>svn update</tt>.</p>
-<p>Please note that you must follow <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">these
-instructions</a> to successfully build the LLVM GCC front-end.</p>
+<p>If you would like to get the GCC front end source code, you can also get it
+and build it yourself. Please follow <a href="GCCFEBuildInstrs.html">these
+instructions</a> to successfully get and build the LLVM GCC front-end.</p>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>Before configuring and compiling the LLVM suite, you need to extract the LLVM
-GCC front end from the binary distribution. It is used for building the
-bytecode libraries later used by the GCC front end for linking programs, and its
-location must be specified when the LLVM suite is configured.</p>
+<p>Before configuring and compiling the LLVM suite (or if you want to use just the LLVM
+GCC front end) you can optionally extract the front end from the binary distribution.
+It is used for running the llvm-test testsuite and for compiling C/C++ programs. Note that
+you can optionally <a href="GCCFEBuildInstrs.html">build llvm-gcc yourself</a> after building the
+main LLVM repository.</p>
-<p>To install the GCC front end, do the following:</p>
+<p>To install the GCC front end, do the following (on Windows, use an archival tool
+like <a href="http://www.7-zip.org">7-zip</a> that understands gzipped tars):</p>
<ol>
<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
- <li><tt>gunzip --stdout cfrontend-<i>version</i>.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf
+ <li><tt>gunzip --stdout llvm-gcc-4.2-<i>version</i>-<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf
-</tt></li>
</ol>
-<p>Next, you will need to fix your system header files:</p>
+<p>Once the binary is uncompressed, if you're using a *nix-based system, add a symlink for
+<tt>llvm-gcc</tt> and <tt>llvm-g++</tt> to some directory in your path. If you're using a
+Windows-based system, add the <tt>bin</tt> subdirectory of your front end installation directory
+to your <tt>PATH</tt> environment variable. For example, if you uncompressed the binary to
+<tt>c:\llvm-gcc</tt>, add <tt>c:\llvm-gcc\bin</tt> to your <tt>PATH</tt>.</p>
+
+<p>If you now want to build LLVM from source, when you configure LLVM, it will
+automatically detect <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>'s presence (if it is in your path) enabling its
+use in llvm-test. Note that you can always build or install <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> at any
+point after building the main LLVM repository: just reconfigure llvm and
+llvm-test will pick it up.
+</p>
-<p><tt>cd cfrontend/<i>platform</i><br>
- ./fixheaders</tt></p>
+<p>As a convenience for Windows users, the front end binaries for MinGW/x86 include
+versions of the required w32api and mingw-runtime binaries. The last remaining step for
+Windows users is to simply uncompress the binary binutils package from
+<a href="http://mingw.org/">MinGW</a> into your front end installation directory. While the
+front end installation steps are not quite the same as a typical manual MinGW installation,
+they should be similar enough to those who have previously installed MinGW on Windows systems.</p>
-<p>The binary versions of the GCC front end may not suit all of your needs. For
-example, the binary distribution may include an old version of a system header
-file, not "fix" a header file that needs to be fixed for GCC, or it may be
-linked with libraries not available on your system.</p>
+<p>To install binutils on Windows:</p>
+
+<ol>
+ <li><tt><i>download GNU Binutils from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/">MinGW Downloads</a></i></tt></li>
+ <li><tt>cd <i>where-you-uncompressed-the-front-end</i></tt></li>
+ <li><tt><i>uncompress archived binutils directories (not the tar file) into the current directory</i></tt></li>
+</ol>
-<p>In cases like these, you may want to try <a
-href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">building the GCC front end from source.</a> This is
-not for the faint of heart, so be forewarned.</p>
+<p>The binary versions of the LLVM GCC front end may not suit all of your needs. For
+example, the binary distribution may include an old version of a system header
+file, not "fix" a header file that needs to be fixed for GCC, or it may be linked with
+libraries not available on your system. In cases like these, you may want to try
+<a href="GCCFEBuildInstrs.html">building the GCC front end from source</a>. Thankfully,
+this is much easier now than it was in the past.</p>
+
+<p>We also do not currently support updating of the GCC front end by manually overlaying
+newer versions of the w32api and mingw-runtime binary packages that may become available
+from MinGW. At this time, it's best to think of the MinGW LLVM GCC front end binary as
+a self-contained convenience package that requires Windows users to simply download and
+uncompress the GNU Binutils binary package from the MinGW project.</p>
+
+<p>Regardless of your platform, if you discover that installing the LLVM GCC front end
+binaries is not as easy as previously described, or you would like to suggest improvements,
+please let us know how you would like to see things improved by dropping us a note on our
+<a href="http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist">mailing list</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>Once checked out from the CVS repository, the LLVM suite source code must be
+ <p>Once checked out from the Subversion repository, the LLVM suite source
+ code must be
configured via the <tt>configure</tt> script. This script sets variables in the
various <tt>*.in</tt> files, most notably <tt>llvm/Makefile.config</tt> and
<tt>llvm/include/Config/config.h</tt>. It also populates <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> with
will fail as these libraries require llvm-gcc and llvm-g++. See
<a href="#installcf">Install the GCC Front End</a> for details on installing
the C/C++ Front End. See
- <a href="CFEBuildInstrs.html">Bootstrapping the LLVM C/C++ Front-End</a>
+ <a href="GCCFEBuildInstrs.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 <tt>tclsh</tt> can be
</dd>
<dt><i>--enable-optimized</i></dt>
<dd>
- Enables optimized compilation by default (debugging symbols are removed
- and GCC optimization flags are enabled). The default is to use an
- unoptimized build (also known as a debug build).
+ Enables optimized compilation (debugging symbols are removed
+ and GCC optimization flags are enabled). Note that this is the default
+ setting if you are using the LLVM distribution. The default behavior
+ of an Subversion checkout is to use an unoptimized build (also known as a
+ debug build).
<br><br>
</dd>
<dt><i>--enable-debug-runtime</i></dt>
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/>
+ names use all lower case. The current set of targets is: <br>
<tt>alpha, ia64, powerpc, skeleton, sparc, x86</tt>.
<br><br></dd>
<dt><i>--enable-doxygen</i></dt>
documentation from the source code. This is disabled by default because
generating the documentation can take a long time and producess 100s of
megabytes of output.</dd>
+ <dt><i>--with-udis86</i></dt>
+ <dd>LLVM can use external disassembler library for various purposes (now it's
+ used only for examining code produced by JIT). This option will enable usage
+ of <a href="http://udis86.sourceforge.net/">udis86</a> x86 (both 32 and 64
+ bits) disassembler library.</dd>
</dl>
<p>To configure LLVM, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
- <li>Change directory into the object root directory:
- <br>
- <tt>cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></tt>
- <br><br>
+ <li><p>Change directory into the object root directory:</p>
- <li>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script located in the LLVM source tree:
- <br>
- <tt><i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure --prefix=/install/path [other options]</tt>
- <br><br>
+ <div class="doc_code"><pre>% cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></pre></div></li>
+
+ <li><p>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script located in the LLVM source
+ tree:</p>
+
+ <div class="doc_code">
+ <pre>% <i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure --prefix=/install/path [other options]</pre>
+ </div></li>
</ol>
</div>
<dl>
<dt>Debug Builds
<dd>
- These builds are the default when one types <tt>gmake</tt> (unless the
- <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> option was used during configuration). The
- build system will compile the tools and libraries with debugging
- information.
+ These builds are the default when one is using an Subversion checkout and
+ types <tt>gmake</tt> (unless the <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> option was
+ used during configuration). The build system will compile the tools and
+ libraries with debugging information. To get a Debug Build using the
+ LLVM distribution the <tt>--disable-optimized</tt> option must be passed
+ to <tt>configure</tt>.
<br><br>
<dt>Release (Optimized) Builds
<tt>gmake</tt> command line. For these builds, the build system will
compile the tools and libraries with GCC optimizations enabled and strip
debugging information from the libraries and executables it generates.
+ Note that Release Builds are default when using an LLVM distribution.
<br><br>
<dt>Profile Builds
<p>Once you have LLVM configured, you can build it by entering the
<i>OBJ_ROOT</i> directory and issuing the following command:</p>
-<p><tt>gmake</tt></p>
+<div class="doc_code"><pre>% gmake</pre></div>
<p>If the build fails, please <a href="#brokengcc">check here</a> to see if you
are using a version of GCC that is known not to compile LLVM.</p>
the parallel build options provided by GNU Make. For example, you could use the
command:</p>
-<p><tt>gmake -j2</tt></p>
+<div class="doc_code"><pre>% gmake -j2</pre></div>
<p>There are several special targets which are useful when working with the LLVM
source code:</p>
<dt><tt>gmake -C runtime install-bytecode</tt>
<dd>
Assuming you built LLVM into $OBJDIR, when this command is run, it will
- install bytecode libraries into the GCC front end's bytecode library
- directory. If you need to update your bytecode libraries,
+ install bitcode libraries into the GCC front end's bitcode library
+ directory. If you need to update your bitcode libraries,
this is the target to use once you've built them.
<br><br>
</dl>
<dd>
Perform a Release (Optimized) build without assertions enabled.
<br><br>
+
+ <dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=0</tt>
+ <dd>
+ Perform a Debug build.
+ <br><br>
<dt><tt>gmake ENABLE_PROFILING=1</tt>
<dd>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
- <p>It is possible to cross-compile LLVM. That is, you can create LLVM
- executables and libraries for a platform different than the one one which you
- are compiling. To do this, a few additional steps are
- required. <sup><a href="#ccn_1">1</a></sup> To cross-compile LLVM, use
- these instructions:</p>
- <ol>
- <li>Configure and build LLVM as a native compiler. You will need
- just <tt>TableGen</tt> from that build.
- <ul>
- <li>If you have <tt>$LLVM_OBJ_ROOT=$LLVM_SRC_ROOT</tt> just execute
- <tt>make -C utils/TableGen</tt> after configuring.</li>
- <li>Otherwise you will need to monitor building process and terminate
- it just after <tt>TableGen</tt> was built.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>Copy the TableGen binary to somewhere safe (out of your build tree).
- </li>
- <li>Configure LLVM to build with a cross-compiler. To do this, supply the
- configure script with <tt>--build</tt> and <tt>--host</tt> options that
- are different. The values of these options must be legal target triples
- that your GCC compiler supports.</li>
- <li>Put the saved <tt>TableGen</tt> executable into the
- into <tt>$LLVM_OBJ_ROOT/{BUILD_TYPE}/bin</tt> directory (e.g. into
- <tt>.../Release/bin</tt> for a Release build).</li>
- <li>Build LLVM as usual.</li>
- </ol>
- <p>The result of such a build will produce executables that are not executable
- on your build host (--build option) but can be executed on your compile host
+ <p>It is possible to cross-compile LLVM itself. That is, you can create LLVM
+ executables and libraries to be hosted on a platform different from the
+ platform where they are build (a Canadian Cross build). To configure a
+ cross-compile, supply the configure script with <tt>--build</tt> and
+ <tt>--host</tt> options that are different. The values of these options must
+ be legal target triples that your GCC compiler supports.</p>
+
+ <p>The result of such a build is executables that are not runnable on
+ on the build host (--build option) but can be executed on the compile host
(--host option).</p>
- <p><b>Notes:</b></p>
- <div class="doc_notes">
- <ol>
- <li><a name="ccn_1">Cross-compiling</a> was tested only with Linux as
- build platform and Windows as host using mingw32 cross-compiler. Other
- combinations have not been tested.</li>
- </ol>
- </div>
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<ul>
<li><p>Change directory to where the LLVM object files should live:</p>
- <p><tt>cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></tt></p></li>
+ <div class="doc_code"><pre>% cd <i>OBJ_ROOT</i></pre></div></li>
<li><p>Run the <tt>configure</tt> script found in the LLVM source
directory:</p>
- <p><tt><i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure</tt></p></li>
+ <div class="doc_code"><pre>% <i>SRC_ROOT</i>/configure</pre></div></li>
</ul>
<p>The LLVM build will place files underneath <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> in directories
<p>
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>"
+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
+execute LLVM bitcode 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
- $ chmod u+x hello.bc (if needed)
- $ ./hello.bc
+$ mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
+$ echo ':llvm:M::BC::/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
+This allows you to execute LLVM bitcode files directly. Thanks to Jack
Cummings for pointing this out!
</p>
</div>
-
<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
<div class="doc_section">
<a name="layout"><b>Program Layout</b></a>
</div>
-<!-- ======================================================================= -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="cvsdir"><tt>CVS</tt> directories</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
-<p>Every directory checked out of CVS will contain a <tt>CVS</tt> directory; for
-the most part these can just be ignored.</p>
-</div>
-
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="examples"><tt>llvm/examples</tt></a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<dd>This directory holds the source code for the LLVM assembly language parser
library.</dd>
- <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/ByteCode/</b></tt></dt>
- <dd>This directory holds code for reading and write LLVM bytecode.</dd>
+ <dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/BitCode/</b></tt></dt>
+ <dd>This directory holds code for reading and write LLVM bitcode.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Analysis/</b></tt><dd>This directory contains a variety of
different program analyses, such as Dominator Information, Call Graphs,
source code locations at which the program is executing.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/</b></tt></dt>
- <dd> This directory contains libraries for executing LLVM bytecode directly
+ <dd> This directory contains libraries for executing LLVM bitcode directly
at runtime in both interpreted and JIT compiled fashions.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm/lib/Support/</b></tt></dt>
<p>This directory contains projects that are not strictly part of LLVM but are
shipped with LLVM. This is also the directory where you should create your own
LLVM-based projects. See <tt>llvm/projects/sample</tt> for an example of how
- to set up your own project. See <tt>llvm/projects/Stacker</tt> for a fully
- functional example of a compiler front end.</p>
+ to set up your own project.</p>
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="runtime"><tt>llvm/runtime</tt></a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>This directory contains libraries which are compiled into LLVM bytecode and
+<p>This directory contains libraries which are compiled into LLVM bitcode and
used when linking programs with the GCC front end. Most of these libraries are
skeleton versions of real libraries; for example, libc is a stripped down
version of glibc.</p>
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="llvmtest"><tt>llvm-test</tt></a></div>
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="llvmtest"><tt>test-suite</tt></a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
- <p>This is not a directory in the normal llvm module; it is a separate CVS
- module that must be checked out (usually to <tt>projects/llvm-test</tt>). This
+ <p>This is not a directory in the normal llvm module; it is a separate
+ Subversion
+ module that must be checked out (usually to <tt>projects/test-suite</tt>).
+ This
module contains a comprehensive correctness, performance, and benchmarking
test
- suite for LLVM. It is a separate CVS module because not every LLVM user is
+ suite for LLVM. It is a separate Subversion module because not every LLVM
+ user is
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>
be configured to utilize both LLVM and non-LLVM compilation tools to enable
pre-processing, translation, optimization, assembly, and linking of programs
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
+ dependent libraries found in bitcode. This reduces the need to get the
traditional <tt>-l<name></tt> options right on the command line. Please
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
- the given LLVM bytecode files, optionally with an index for faster
+ the given LLVM bitcode files, optionally with an index for faster
lookup.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm-as</b></tt></dt>
<dd>The assembler transforms the human readable LLVM assembly to LLVM
- bytecode.</dd>
+ bitcode.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm-dis</b></tt></dt>
- <dd>The disassembler transforms the LLVM bytecode to human readable
+ <dd>The disassembler transforms the LLVM bitcode to human readable
LLVM assembly.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm-ld</b></tt></dt>
- <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. This tool is considered
- experimental.</dd>
+ <dd><tt>llvm-ld</tt> is a general purpose and extensible linker for LLVM.
+ This is the linker invoked by <tt>llvmc</tt>. It performsn standard link time
+ optimizations and allows optimization modules to be loaded and run so that
+ language specific optimizations can be applied at link time.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm-link</b></tt></dt>
<dd><tt>llvm-link</tt>, not surprisingly, links multiple LLVM modules into
<dt><tt><b>lli</b></tt></dt>
<dd><tt>lli</tt> is the LLVM interpreter, which
- can directly execute LLVM bytecode (although very slowly...). In addition
- to a simple interpreter, <tt>lli</tt> also has a tracing mode (entered by
- specifying <tt>-trace</tt> on the command line). Finally, for
- architectures that support it (currently x86, Sparc, and PowerPC), by default,
- <tt>lli</tt> will function as a Just-In-Time compiler (if the
- functionality was compiled in), and will execute the code <i>much</i>
- faster than the interpreter.</dd>
+ can directly execute LLVM bitcode (although very slowly...). For architectures
+ that support it (currently x86, Sparc, and PowerPC), by default, <tt>lli</tt>
+ will function as a Just-In-Time compiler (if the functionality was compiled
+ in), and will execute the code <i>much</i> faster than the interpreter.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llc</b></tt></dt>
<dd> <tt>llc</tt> is the LLVM backend compiler, which
- translates LLVM bytecode to a native code assembly file or to C code (with
+ translates LLVM bitcode to a native code assembly file or to C code (with
the -march=c option).</dd>
<dt><tt><b>llvm-gcc</b></tt></dt>
- <dd><tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is a GCC-based C frontend
- 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 available as a separate CVS module.
- <blockquote>
- <dl>
- <dt><tt><b>gccas</b></tt></dt>
- <dd>This tool is invoked by the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> frontend as the
- "assembler" part of the compiler. This tool actually assembles LLVM
- assembly to LLVM bytecode, performs a variety of optimizations, and
- outputs LLVM bytecode. Thus when you invoke
- <tt>llvm-gcc -c x.c -o x.o</tt>, you are causing <tt>gccas</tt> to be
- run, which writes the <tt>x.o</tt> file (which is an LLVM bytecode file
- that can be disassembled or manipulated just like any other bytecode
- file). The command line interface to <tt>gccas</tt> is designed to be
- as close as possible to the <b>system</b> `<tt>as</tt>' utility so that
- the gcc frontend itself did not have to be modified to interface to
- a "weird" assembler.</dd>
-
- <dt><tt><b>gccld</b></tt></dt>
- <dd><tt>gccld</tt> links together several LLVM bytecode files into one
- bytecode file and does some optimization. It is the linker invoked by
- the GCC frontend when multiple .o files need to be linked together.
- Like <tt>gccas</tt>, the command line interface of <tt>gccld</tt> is
- designed to match the system linker, to aid interfacing with the GCC
- frontend.</dd>
- </dl>
- </blockquote>
- </dd>
+ <dd><tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is a GCC-based C frontend that has been retargeted to
+ use LLVM as its backend instead of GCC's RTL backend. It can also emit LLVM
+ bitcode or assembly (with the <tt>-emit-llvm</tt> option) instead of the
+ usual 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.
+ Additionally, the the source code for <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is available as a
+ separate Subversion module.</dd>
<dt><tt><b>opt</b></tt></dt>
- <dd><tt>opt</tt> reads LLVM bytecode, applies a series of LLVM to LLVM
+ <dd><tt>opt</tt> reads LLVM bitcode, applies a series of LLVM to LLVM
transformations (which are specified on the command line), and then outputs
- the resultant bytecode. The '<tt>opt --help</tt>' command is a good way to
- get a list of the program transformations available in LLVM.<br/>
+ the resultant bitcode. The '<tt>opt --help</tt>' command is a good way to
+ get a list of the program transformations available in LLVM.<br>
<dd><tt>opt</tt> can also be used to run a specific analysis on an input
- LLVM bytecode file and print out the results. It is primarily useful for
+ LLVM bitcode file and print out the results. It is primarily useful for
debugging analyses, or familiarizing yourself with what an analysis does.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
assuming that the other generates correct output. For the full user
manual, run <tt>`perldoc codegen-diff'</tt>.<br><br>
- <dt><tt><b>cvsupdate</b></tt> <dd><tt>cvsupdate</tt> is a script that will
- update your CVS tree, but produce a much cleaner and more organized output
- than simply running <tt>`cvs -z3 up -dP'</tt> will. For example, it will group
- together all the new and updated files and modified files in separate
- sections, so you can see at a glance what has changed. If you are at the
- top of your LLVM CVS tree, running <tt>utils/cvsupdate</tt> is the
- preferred way of updating the tree.<br><br>
-
<dt><tt><b>emacs/</b></tt> <dd>The <tt>emacs</tt> directory contains
syntax-highlighting files which will work with Emacs and XEmacs editors,
providing syntax highlighting support for LLVM assembly files and TableGen
directory, switch to directory <tt>llvm/tools/llc</tt> and build it,
causing a re-linking of LLC.<br><br>
- <dt><tt><b>NightlyTest.pl</b></tt> and
+ <dt><tt><b>NewNightlyTest.pl</b></tt> and
<tt><b>NightlyTestTemplate.html</b></tt> <dd>These files are used in a
cron script to generate nightly status reports of the functionality of
tools, and the results can be seen by following the appropriate link on
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<div class="doc_text">
-<p>This section gives an example of using LLVM. Since we are currently
-transitioning from llvm-gcc3 to llvm-gcc4, we include examples for both.
+<p>This section gives an example of using LLVM. llvm-gcc3 is now obsolete,
+so we only include instructions for llvm-gcc4.
</p>
<p><b>Note:</b> The <i>gcc4</i> frontend's invocation is <b><i>considerably different</i></b>
from the previous <i>gcc3</i> frontend. In particular, the <i>gcc4</i> frontend <b><i>does not</i></b>
-create bytecode by default: <i>gcc4</i> produces native code. As the example below illustrates,
-the '--emit-llvm' flag is needed to produce LLVM bytecode output. For <i>makefiles</i> and
-<i>configure</i> scripts, the CFLAGS variable needs '--emit-llvm' to produce bytecode
+create bitcode by default: <i>gcc4</i> produces native code. As the example below illustrates,
+the '--emit-llvm' flag is needed to produce LLVM bitcode output. For <i>makefiles</i> and
+<i>configure</i> scripts, the CFLAGS variable needs '--emit-llvm' to produce bitcode
output.</p>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<ol>
- <li>First, create a simple C file, name it 'hello.c':
- <pre>
- #include <stdio.h>
- int main() {
- printf("hello world\n");
- return 0;
- }
- </pre></li>
+ <li><p>First, create a simple C file, name it 'hello.c':</p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main() {
+ printf("hello world\n");
+ return 0;
+}
+</pre></div></li>
<li><p>Next, compile the C file into a native executable:</p>
- <p><tt>% llvm-gcc hello.c -o hello</tt></p>
+ <div class="doc_code"><pre>% llvm-gcc hello.c -o hello</pre></div>
<p>Note that llvm-gcc works just like GCC by default. The standard -S and
-c arguments work as usual (producing a native .s or .o file,
- respectively). </p>
+ respectively).</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>Next, compile the C file into a LLVM bitcode file:</p>
- <li><p>Next, compile the C file into a LLVM bytecode file:</p>
- <p><tt>% llvm-gcc -O3 -emit-llvm hello.c -c -o hello.bc</tt></p>
+ <div class="doc_code">
+ <pre>% llvm-gcc -O3 -emit-llvm hello.c -c -o hello.bc</pre></div>
<p>The -emit-llvm option can be used with the -S or -c options to emit an
LLVM ".ll" or ".bc" file (respectively) for the code. This allows you
to use the <a href="CommandGuide/index.html">standard LLVM tools</a> on
- the bytecode file.</p>
+ the bitcode file.</p>
<p>Unlike llvm-gcc3, llvm-gcc4 correctly responds to -O[0123] arguments.
</p></li>
<li><p>Run the program in both forms. To run the program, use:</p>
- <p><tt>% ./hello</tt></p>
+ <div class="doc_code"><pre>% ./hello</pre></div>
<p>and</p>
- <p><tt>% lli hello.bc</tt></p>
+ <div class="doc_code"><pre>% lli hello.bc</pre></div>
<p>The second examples shows how to invoke the LLVM JIT, <a
href="CommandGuide/html/lli.html">lli</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Use the <tt>llvm-dis</tt> utility to take a look at the LLVM assembly
code:</p>
- <p><tt>% llvm-dis < hello.bc | less</tt><br><br></li>
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>llvm-dis < hello.bc | less</pre>
+</div></li>
<li><p>Compile the program to native assembly using the LLC code
generator:</p>
- <p><tt>% llc hello.bc -o hello.s</tt></p>
+ <div class="doc_code"><pre>% llc hello.bc -o hello.s</pre></div></li>
<li><p>Assemble the native assembly language file into a program:</p>
- <p><b>Solaris:</b><tt>% /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -xarch=v9 hello.s -o hello.native</tt></p>
- <p><b>Others:</b><tt>% gcc hello.s -o hello.native</tt></p>
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+<b>Solaris:</b> % /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -xarch=v9 hello.s -o hello.native
+
+<b>Others:</b> % gcc hello.s -o hello.native
+</pre>
+</div></li>
<li><p>Execute the native code program:</p>
- <p><tt>% ./hello.native</tt></p>
+ <div class="doc_code"><pre>% ./hello.native</pre></div>
<p>Note that using llvm-gcc to compile directly to native code (i.e. when
the -emit-llvm option is not present) does steps 6/7/8 for you.</p>
</div>
-<!-- ======================================================================= -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="tutorial3">Example with llvm-gcc3</a></div>
-
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<ol>
- <li>First, create a simple C file, name it 'hello.c':
- <pre>
- #include <stdio.h>
- int main() {
- printf("hello world\n");
- return 0;
- }
- </pre></li>
-
- <li><p>Next, compile the C file into a LLVM bytecode file:</p>
- <p><tt>% llvm-gcc hello.c -o hello</tt></p>
-
- <p>Note that you should have already built the tools and they have to be
- in your path, at least <tt>gccas</tt> and <tt>gccld</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>This will create two result files: <tt>hello</tt> and
- <tt>hello.bc</tt>. The <tt>hello.bc</tt> is the LLVM bytecode that
- corresponds the the compiled program and the library facilities that it
- required. <tt>hello</tt> is a simple shell script that runs the bytecode
- file with <tt>lli</tt>, making the result directly executable. Note that
- all LLVM optimizations are enabled by default, so there is no need for a
- "-O3" switch.</p></li>
-
- <li><p>Run the program. To make sure the program ran, execute one of the
- following commands:</p>
-
- <p><tt>% ./hello</tt></p>
-
- <p>or</p>
-
- <p><tt>% lli hello.bc</tt></p></li>
-
- <li><p>Use the <tt>llvm-dis</tt> utility to take a look at the LLVM assembly
- code:</p>
-
- <p><tt>% llvm-dis < hello.bc | less</tt><br><br></li>
-
- <li><p>Compile the program to native assembly using the LLC code
- generator:</p>
-
- <p><tt>% llc hello.bc -o hello.s</tt></p>
-
- <li><p>Assemble the native assembly language file into a program:</p>
-
- <p><b>Solaris:</b><tt>% /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -xarch=v9 hello.s -o hello.native</tt></p>
- <p><b>Others:</b><tt>% gcc hello.s -o hello.native</tt></p>
-
- <li><p>Execute the native code program:</p>
-
- <p><tt>% ./hello.native</tt></p></li>
-
-</ol>
-
-</div>
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+<p>This document is just an <b>introduction</b> on how to use LLVM to do
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that you can do that aren't documented here (but we'll gladly accept a patch
if you want to write something up!). For more information about LLVM, check
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