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<body>
-<div class="doc_title">
+<h1>
Getting Started with the LLVM System using Microsoft Visual Studio
-</div>
+</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a>
</ul>
<div class="doc_author">
- <p>Written by: <a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Team</a></p>
+ <p>Written by: <a href="http://llvm.org/">The LLVM Team</a></p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_section">
+<h2>
<a name="overview"><b>Overview</b></a>
-</div>
+</h2>
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-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>Welcome to LLVM on Windows! This document only covers LLVM on Windows using
Visual Studio, not mingw or cygwin. In order to get started, you first need to
<p>There are many different projects that compose LLVM. The first 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,
+ use LLVM. 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.</p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_section">
+<h2>
<a name="requirements"><b>Requirements</b></a>
-</div>
+</h2>
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-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>Before you begin to use the LLVM system, review the requirements given
below. This may save you some trouble by knowing ahead of time what hardware
and software you will need.</p>
-</div>
-
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-<div class="doc_subsection">
+<h3>
<a name="hardware"><b>Hardware</b></a>
-</div>
+</h3>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
- <p>Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio .NET 2005 SP1 is fine.
- The LLVM source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume
+ <p>Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio 2008 is fine. The LLVM
+ source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume
approximately 3GB.</p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></h3>
+<div>
- <p>You will need Visual Studio .NET 2005 SP1 or higher. The VS2005 SP1
- beta and the normal VS2005 still have bugs that are not completely
- compatible. Earlier versions of Visual Studio do not support the C++ standard
- well enough and will not work.</p>
+ <p>You will need Visual Studio 2008 or higher. Earlier versions of Visual
+ Studio have bugs, are not completely compatible, or do not support the C++
+ standard well enough.</p>
<p>You will also need the <a href="http://www.cmake.org/">CMake</a> build
system since it generates the project files you will use to build with.</p>
</div>
+</div>
+
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-<div class="doc_section">
+<h2>
<a name="quickstart"><b>Getting Started</b></a>
-</div>
+</h2>
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-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>Here's the short story for getting up and running quickly with LLVM:</p>
<ul>
<li>If %PATH% does not contain GnuWin32, you may specify LLVM_LIT_TOOLS_DIR
on CMake for the path to GnuWin32.</li>
- <li>You can run LLVM tests to build the project "check".</li>
+ <li>You can run LLVM tests by merely building the project
+ "check". The test results will be shown in the VS output
+ window.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<p>Note that quite a few of these test will fail.</p>
</li>
- <li>A specific test or test directory can be run with:</li>
+ <li>A specific test or test directory can be run with:
<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
% llvm-lit test/path/to/test
</pre>
</div>
-
+ </li>
+ </ul>
</ol>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_section">
+<h2>
<a name="tutorial">An Example Using the LLVM Tool Chain</a>
-</div>
+</h2>
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-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<ol>
<li><p>First, create a simple C file, name it 'hello.c':</p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_section">
+<h2>
<a name="problems">Common Problems</a>
-</div>
+</h2>
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-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>If you are having problems building or using LLVM, or if you have any other
general questions about LLVM, please consult the <a href="FAQ.html">Frequently
</div>
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-<div class="doc_section">
+<h2>
<a name="links">Links</a>
-</div>
+</h2>
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-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>This document is just an <b>introduction</b> to how to use LLVM to do
some simple things... there are many more interesting and complicated things
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+ <a href="http://llvm.org/">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
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