<ol>
<li><a href="#libraries">Libraries</a>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#Modules">Bytecode Modules</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#BCModules">Bytecode Modules</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#LoadableModules">Loadable Modules</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><a href="#tools">Tools</a>
<li><a href="#JIT">JIT Tools</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
+ <li><a href="#projects">Projects</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><a href="#targets">Targets Supported</a>
<li><a href="#install">install</a></li>
<li><a href="#preconditions">preconditions</a></li>
<li><a href="#printvars">printvars</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#reconfigure">reconfigure</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#spotless">spotless</a></li>
<li><a href="#tags">tags</a></li>
<li><a href="#uninstall">uninstall</a></li>
</ol>
Make 3.79, a widely portable makefile processor. LLVM unabashedly makes heavy
use of the features of GNU Make so the dependency on GNU Make is firm. If
you're not familiar with <tt>make</tt>, it is recommended that you read the
- <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html">GNU Makefile Manual
- </a>.</p>
+ <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html">GNU Makefile
+ Manual</a>.</p>
<p>While this document is rightly part of the
<a href="ProgrammersManual.html">LLVM Programmer's Manual</a>, it is treated
separately here because of the volume of content and because it is often an
software, but it can build yours too. Built into the system is knowledge of
the <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory. Any directory under <tt>projects</tt>
that has both a <tt>configure</tt> script and a <tt>Makefile</tt> is assumed
- to be a project that uses the LLVM Makefile system. This allows your project
+ to be a project that uses the LLVM Makefile system. Building software that
+ uses LLVM does not require the LLVM Makefile System nor even placement in the
+ <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory. However, doing so will allow your project
to get up and running quickly by utilizing the built-in features that are used
to compile LLVM. LLVM compiles itself using the same features of the makefile
system as used for projects.</p>
+ <p>For complete details on setting up your projects configuration, simply
+ mimic the <tt>llvm/projects/sample</tt> project or for further details,
+ consult the <a href="Projects.html">Projects.html</a> page.</p>
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
LIBRARYNAME = mylib
SHARED_LIBRARY = 1
ARCHIVE_LIBRARY = 1
- DONT_BUILT_RELINKED = 1
+ DONT_BUILD_RELINKED = 1
</tt></pre>
<p>says to build a library named "mylib" with both a shared library
(<tt>mylib.so</tt>) and an archive library (<tt>mylib.a</tt>) version but
Note that you normally do not need to specify the sources involved. The LLVM
Makefile system will infer the source files from the contents of the source
directory.</p>
+ <p>The <tt>LOADABLE_MODULE=1</tt> directive can be used in conjunction with
+ <tt>SHARED_LIBRARY=1</tt> to indicate that the resulting shared library should
+ be openable with the <tt>dlopen</tt> function and searchable with the
+ <tt>dlsym</tt> function (or your operating system's equivalents). While this
+ isn't strictly necessary on Linux and a few other platforms, it is required
+ on systems like HP-UX and Darwin. You should use <tt>LOADABLE_MODULE</tt> for
+ any shared library that you intend to be loaded into an tool via the
+ <tt>-load</tt> option. See the
+ <a href="WritingAnLLVMPass.html#makefile">WritingAnLLVMPass.html</a> document
+ for an example of why you might want to do this.
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
-<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="Modules">Bytecode Modules</a></div>
+<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="BCModules">Bytecode Modules</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>In some situations, it is desireable to build a single bytecode module from
a variety of sources, instead of an archive, shared library, or bytecode
library. Bytecode modules can be specified in addition to any of the other
- types of libraries by defining the <a href="MODULE_NAME">MODULE_NAME</a>
+ types of libraries by defining the <a href="#MODULE_NAME">MODULE_NAME</a>
variable. For example:</p>
<pre><tt>
LIBRARYNAME = mylib
</p>
</div>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+ <a name="LodableModules">Loadable Modules</a>
+</div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <p>In some situations, you need to create a loadable module. Loadable modules
+ can be loaded into programs like <tt>opt</tt> or <tt>llc</tt> to specify
+ additional passes to run or targets to support. Loadable modules are also
+ useful for debugging a pass or providing a pass with another package if that
+ pass can't be included in LLVM.</p>
+ <p>LLVM provides complete support for building such a module. All you need to
+ do is use the LOADABLE_MODULE variable in your Makefile. For example, to
+ build a loadable module named <tt>MyMod</tt> that uses the LLVM libraries
+ <tt>LLVMSupport.a</tt> and <tt>LLVMSystem.a</tt>, you would specify:</p>
+ <pre><tt>
+ LIBRARYNAME := MyMod
+ LOADABLE_MODULE := 1
+ USEDLIBS := LLVMSupport.a LLVMSystem.a
+ </tt></pre>
+ <p>Use of the <tt>LOADABLE_MODULE</tt> facility implies several things:</p>
+ <ol>
+ <li>There will be no "lib" prefix on the module. This differentiates it from
+ a standard shared library of the same name.</li>
+ <li>The <a href="#SHARED_LIBRARY">SHARED_LIBRARY</a> variable is turned
+ on.</li>
+ <li>The <a href="#LINK_LIBS_IN_SHARED">LINK_LIBS_IN_SHARED</a> variable
+ is turned on.</li>
+ <li>The <a href="#DONT_BUILD_RELINKED">DONT_BUILD_RELINKED</a> variable
+ is turned on.</li>
+ </ol>
+ <p>A loadable module is loaded by LLVM via the facilities of libtool's libltdl
+ library which is part of <tt>lib/System</tt> implementation.</p>
+</div>
+
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="tools">Tools</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<tr><td><a href="#dist"><tt>dist</tt></a></td><td>all</td>
<td>Prepare a source distribution tarball.
</td></tr>
- <tr><td><a href="#dist-check"><tt>dist-check</tt></a></td><td>all check</td>
+ <tr><td><a href="#dist-check"><tt>dist-check</tt></a></td><td>all</td>
<td>Prepare a source distribution tarball and check that it builds.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#dist-clean"><tt>dist-clean</tt></a></td><td>clean</td>
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="check">check</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>This target can be invoked from anywhere within a project's directories
- but always invokes the <a href="check-local"><tt>check-local</tt></a> target
+ but always invokes the <a href="#check-local"><tt>check-local</tt></a> target
in the project's <tt>test</tt> directory, if it exists and has a
<tt>Makefile</tt>. A warning is produced otherwise. If
- <a href="TESTSUITE"><tt>TESTSUITE</tt></a> is defined on the <tt>make</tt>
+ <a href="#TESTSUITE"><tt>TESTSUITE</tt></a> is defined on the <tt>make</tt>
command line, it will be passed down to the invocation of
<tt>make check-local</tt> in the <tt>test</tt> directory. The intended usage
for this is to assist in running specific suites of tests. If
the makefile variables so that you can double check how things are set. </p>
</div>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="reconfigure">reconfigure</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <p>This utility target will force a reconfigure of LLVM or your project. It
+ simply runs <tt>$(PROJ_OBJ_ROOT)/config.status --recheck</tt> to rerun the
+ configuration tests and rebuild the configured files. This isn't generally
+ useful as the makefiles will reconfigure themselves whenever its necessary.
+ </p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="spotless">spotless</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <p>This utility target, only available when <tt>$(PROJ_OBJ_ROOT)</tt> is not
+ the same as <tt>$(PROJ_SRC_ROOT)</tt>, will completely clean the
+ <tt>$(PROJ_OBJ_ROOT)</tt> directory by removing its content entirely and
+ reconfiguring the directory. This returns the <tt>$(PROJ_OBJ_ROOT)</tt>
+ directory to a completely fresh state. All content in the directory except
+ configured files and top-level makefiles will be lost.</p>
+ <div class="doc_warning"><p>Use with caution.</p></div>
+</div>
+
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="tags">tags</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
to the compilers and linkers to ensure that profile data can be collected
from the tools built. Use the <tt>gprof</tt> tool to analyze the output from
the profiled tools (<tt>gmon.out</tt>).</dd>
+ <dt><a name="DISABLE_ASSERTIONS"><tt>DISABLE_ASSERTIONS</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>If set to any value, causes the build to disable assertions, even if
+ building a release or profile build. This will exclude all assertion check
+ code from the build. LLVM will execute faster, but with little help when
+ things go wrong.</dd>
<dt><a name="EXPERIMENTAL_DIRS"><tt>EXPERIMENTAL_DIRS</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specify a set of directories that should be built, but if they fail, it
should not cause the build to fail. Note that this should only be used
<dd>Specifies a set of symbols to be exported by the linker.</dd>
<dt><a name="EXTRA_DIST"><tt>EXTRA_DIST</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specifies additional files that should be distributed with LLVM. All
- source files, all built sources, all Makefiles, and most documentation files
+ source files, all built sources, all Makefiles, and most documentation files
will be automatically distributed. Use this variable to distribute any
files that are not automatically distributed.</dd>
- <dt><a name="FAKE_SOURCES"><tt>FAKE_SOURCES</tt><small>(optional)</small>
- </a></dt>
- <dd>This variable is like <a href="SOURCES"><tt>SOURCES</tt></a> except that
- the source files don't need to exist. The makefiles only use
- <tt>FAKE_SOURCES</tt> to create the names of derived objects that should be
- included in the directory's result. It is assumed that the project's
- <tt>Makefile</tt> will define how to build the derived objects
- necessary.</dd>
<dt><a name="KEEP_SYMBOLS"><tt>KEEP_SYMBOLS</tt></a></dt>
<dd>If set to any value, specifies that when linking executables the
makefiles should retain debug symbols in the executable. Normally, symbols
<dt><a name="LIBRARYNAME"><tt>LIBRARYNAME</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specify the name of the library to be built. (Required For
Libraries)</dd>
+ <dt><a name="LINK_LIBS_IN_SHARED"><tt>LINK_LIBS_IN_SHARED</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>By default, shared library linking will ignore any libraries specified
+ with the <a href="LLVMLIBS">LLVMLIBS</a> or <a href="USEDLIBS">USEDLIBS</a>.
+ This prevents shared libs from including things that will be in the LLVM
+ tool the shared library will be loaded into. However, sometimes it is useful
+ to link certain libraries into your shared library and this option enables
+ that feature.</dd>
<dt><a name="LLVMLIBS"><tt>LLVMLIBS</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specifies the set of libraries from the LLVM $(ObjDir) that will be
linked into the tool or library.</dd>
+ <dt><a name="LOADABLE_MODULE"><tt>LOADABLE_MODULE</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>If set to any value, causes the shared library being built to also be
+ a loadable module. Loadable modules can be opened with the dlopen() function
+ and searched with dlsym (or the operating system's equivalent). Note that
+ setting this variable without also setting <tt>SHARED_LIBRARY</tt> will have
+ no effect.</dd>
<dt><a name="MODULE_NAME"><tt>MODULE_NAME</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specifies the name of a bytecode module to be created. A bytecode
module can be specified in conjunction with other kinds of library builds
<dd>Specifies the name of the LLVM code generation target that the
current directory builds. Setting this variable enables additional rules to
build <tt>.inc</tt> files from <tt>.td</tt> files. </dd>
+ <dt><a name="TESTSUITE"><tt>TESTSUITE</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>Specifies the directory of tests to run in <tt>llvm/test</tt>.</dd>
<dt><a name="TOOLNAME"><tt>TOOLNAME</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specifies the name of the tool that the current directory should
build.</dd>
<dd>Specifies the path to the <tt>ar</tt> tool.</dd>
<dt><a name="BISON"><tt>BISON</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
<dd>Specifies the path to the <tt>bison</tt> tool.</dd>
- <dt><a name="BUILD_OBJ_DIR"><tt>BUILD_OBJ_DIR</tt></a></dt>
+ <dt><a name="PROJ_OBJ_DIR"><tt>PROJ_OBJ_DIR</tt></a></dt>
<dd>The directory into which the products of build rules will be placed.
This might be the same as
- <a href="#BUILD_SRC_DIR"><tt>BUILD_SRC_DIR</tt></a> but typically is
+ <a href="#PROJ_SRC_DIR"><tt>PROJ_SRC_DIR</tt></a> but typically is
not.</dd>
- <dt><a name="BUILD_SRC_DIR"><tt>BUILD_SRC_DIR</tt></a></dt>
+ <dt><a name="PROJ_SRC_DIR"><tt>PROJ_SRC_DIR</tt></a></dt>
<dd>The directory which contains the source files to be built.</dd>
- <dt><a name="BURG"><tt>BURG</tt></a></dt>
- <dd>Specifies the path to the <tt>burg</tt> tool.</dd>
<dt><a name="BZIP2"><tt>BZIP2</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
<dd>The path to the <tt>bzip2</tt> tool.</dd>
<dt><a name="CC"><tt>CC</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
<dd>Specifies the path to the <tt>echo</tt> tool for printing output.</dd>
<dt><a name="ETAGS"><tt>ETAGS</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
<dd>Specifies the path to the <tt>etags</tt> tool.</dd>
- <dt><a name="ETAGSFLAGS"><tt>ETAGSFLAGS</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
+ <dt><a name="ETAGSFLAGS"><tt>ETAGSFLAGS</tt></a><small>(configured)</small>
+ </dt>
<dd>Provides flags to be passed to the <tt>etags</tt> tool.</dd>
<dt><a name="EXEEXT"><tt>EXEEXT</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
<dd>Provides the extension to be used on executables built by the makefiles.
<dd>Specifies the path to the LLVM version of the GCC 'C' Compiler</dd>
<dt><a name="LLVMGXX"><tt>LLVMGXX</tt></a><small>(defaulted)</small></dt>
<dd>Specifies the path to the LLVM version of the GCC C++ Compiler</dd>
- <dt><a name="LLVM_OBJ_ROOT"><tt>LLVM_OBJ_ROOT</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
+ <dt><a name="LLVM_OBJ_ROOT"><tt>LLVM_OBJ_ROOT</tt></a><small>(configured)
+ </small></dt>
<dd>Specifies the top directory into which the output of the build is
placed.</dd>
- <dt><a name="LLVM_SRC_ROOT"><tt>LLVM_SRC_ROOT</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
+ <dt><a name="LLVM_SRC_ROOT"><tt>LLVM_SRC_ROOT</tt></a><small>(configured)
+ </small></dt>
<dd>Specifies the top directory in which the sources are found.</dd>
- <dt><a name="LLVM_TARBALL_NAME"><tt>LLVM_TARBALL_NAME</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
+ <dt><a name="LLVM_TARBALL_NAME"><tt>LLVM_TARBALL_NAME</tt></a>
+ <small>(configured)</small></dt>
<dd>Specifies the name of the distribution tarball to create. This is
configured from the name of the project and its version number.</dd>
<dt><a name="MKDIR"><tt>MKDIR</tt></a><small>(defaulted)</small></dt>
<dd>The name of the type of build being performed: Debug, Release, or
Profile</dd>
<dt><a name="bytecode_libdir"><tt>bytecode_libdir</tt></a></dt>
- <dd>The directory into which bytecode libraries will ultimately be installed.
- This value is derived from the <tt>--prefix</tt> option given to
+ <dd>The directory into which bytecode libraries will ultimately be
+ installed. This value is derived from the <tt>--prefix</tt> option given to
<tt>configure</tt>.</dd>
<dt><a name="ConfigureScriptFLAGS"><tt>ConfigureScriptFLAGS</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Additional flags given to the <tt>configure</tt> script when
BCCompile.C
BCCompile.CXX
BCLinkLib
- Burg
C.Flags
Compile.C
CompileCommonOpts
LibTool.Flags
Link
LinkModule
- LLVMGCCLibDir
- LLVMGCCStdCXXLibDir
LLVMLibDir
LLVMLibsOptions
LLVMLibsPaths
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