<ol>
<li><a href="#libraries">Libraries</a>
<ol>
- <li><a href="#Modules">Bytecode Modules</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#BCModules">Bitcode Modules</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#LoadableModules">Loadable Modules</a></li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><a href="#tools">Tools</a>
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
Normally, the makefile system will build all the software into a single
<tt>libname.o</tt> (pre-linked) object. This means the library is not
searchable and that the distinction between compilation units has been
- dissolved. Optionally, you can ask for a shared library (.so), archive library
- (.a) or to not have the default (relinked) library built. For example:</p>
+ dissolved. Optionally, you can ask for a shared library (.so) or archive
+ library (.a) built. Archive libraries are the default. For example:</p>
<pre><tt>
LIBRARYNAME = mylib
SHARED_LIBRARY = 1
ARCHIVE_LIBRARY = 1
- DONT_BUILT_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
- not to build the relinked object (<tt>mylib.o</tt>). The contents of all the
+ (<tt>mylib.so</tt>) and an archive library (<tt>mylib.a</tt>) version. The
+ contents of all the
libraries produced will be the same, they are just constructed differently.
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
</div>
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
-<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="Modules">Bytecode Modules</a></div>
+<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="BCModules">Bitcode 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
+ <p>In some situations, it is desireable to build a single bitcode module from
+ a variety of sources, instead of an archive, shared library, or bitcode
+ library. Bitcode modules can be specified in addition to any of the other
types of libraries by defining the <a href="#MODULE_NAME">MODULE_NAME</a>
variable. For example:</p>
<pre><tt>
MODULE_NAME = mymod
</tt></pre>
<p>will build a module named <tt>mymod.bc</tt> from the sources in the
- directory. This module will be an aggregation of all the bytecode modules
- derived from the sources. The example will also build a bytecode archive
- containing a bytecode module for each compiled source file. The difference is
+ directory. This module will be an aggregation of all the bitcode modules
+ derived from the sources. The example will also build a bitcode archive
+ containing a bitcode module for each compiled source file. The difference is
subtle, but important depending on how the module or library is to be linked.
</p>
</div>
+<!-- ======================================================================= -->
+<div class="doc_subsubsection">
+ <a name="LoadableModules">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
+ LINK_COMPONENTS := support system
+ </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>
+ </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">
<pre><tt>
TOOLNAME = mytool
USEDLIBS = mylib
- LLVMLIBS = LLVMSupport.a LLVMSystem.a
+ LINK_COMPONENTS = support system
</tt></pre>
<p>says that we are to build a tool name <tt>mytool</tt> and that it requires
three libraries: <tt>mylib</tt>, <tt>LLVMSupport.a</tt> and
<!-- ======================================================================= -->
<div class="doc_subsubsection"><a name="JIT">JIT Tools</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
- <p>Many tools will want to use the JIT features of LLVM. However, getting the
- right set of libraries to link with is tedious, platform specific, and error
- prone. Additionally, the JIT has special linker switch options that it needs.
- Consequently, to make it easier to build tools that use the JIT, you can
- use a special value for the <tt>LLVMLIBS</tt> variable:</p>
+ <p>Many tools will want to use the JIT features of LLVM. To do this, you
+ simply specify that you want an execution 'engine', and the makefiles will
+ automatically link in the appropriate JIT for the host or an interpreter
+ if none is available:</p>
<pre><tt>
TOOLNAME = my_jit_tool
USEDLIBS = mylib
- LLVMLIBS = JIT
+ LINK_COMPONENTS = engine
</tt></pre>
- <p>Using a value of <tt>JIT</tt> for <tt>LLVMLIBS</tt> tells the makefile
- system to construct a special value for LLVMLIBS that gives the program all
- the LLVM libraries needed to run the JIT. Any additional libraries needed can
- still be specified with <tt>USEDLIBS</tt>. To get a full understanding of how
- this changes the linker command, it is recommended that you:</p>
+ <p>Of course, any additional libraries may be listed as other components. To
+ get a full understanding of how this changes the linker command, it is
+ recommended that you:</p>
<pre><tt>
cd examples/Fibonacci
make VERBOSE=1
</tt></pre>
- <p>By default, using <tt>LLVMLIBS=JIT</tt> will link in enough to support JIT
- code generation for the architecture on which the tool is linked. If you need
- additional target architectures linked in, you may specify them on the command
- line or in your <tt>Makefile</tt>. For example:</p>
- <pre><tt>
- ENABLE_X86_JIT=1
- ENABLE_SPARCV9_JIT=1
- ENALBE_PPC_JIT=1
- </tt></pre>
- <p>will cause the tool to be able to generate code for all three platforms.
- </p>
</div>
<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
files. These sources will be built before any other target processing to
ensure they are present.</dd>
<dt><a name="BYTECODE_LIBRARY"><tt>BYTECODE_LIBRARY</tt></a></dt>
- <dd>If set to any value, causes a bytecode library (.bc) to be built.</dd>
+ <dd>If set to any value, causes a bitcode library (.bc) to be built.</dd>
<dt><a name="CONFIG_FILES"><tt>CONFIG_FILES</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specifies a set of configuration files to be installed.</dd>
<dt><a name="DIRS"><tt>DIRS</tt></a></dt>
<dd>If set to any value, causes the makefiles to <b>not</b> automatically
generate dependencies when running the compiler. Use of this feature is
discouraged and it may be removed at a later date.</dd>
- <dt><a name="DONT_BUILD_RELINKED"><tt>DONT_BUILD_RELINKED</tt></a></dt>
- <dd>If set to any value, causes a relinked library (.o) not to be built. By
- default, libraries are built as re-linked since most LLVM libraries are
- needed in their entirety and re-linked libraries will be linked more quickly
- than equivalent archive libraries.</dd>
<dt><a name="ENABLE_OPTIMIZED"><tt>ENABLE_OPTIMIZED</tt></a></dt>
<dd>If set to any value, causes the build to generate optimized objects,
libraries and executables. This alters the flags specified to the compilers
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="KEEP_SYMBOLS"><tt>KEEP_SYMBOLS</tt></a></dt>
<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_COMPONENTS"><tt>LINK_COMPONENTS</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>When specified for building a tool, the value of this variable will be
+ passed to the <tt>llvm-config</tt> tool to generate a link line for the
+ tool. Unlike <tt>USEDLIBS</tt> and <tt>LLVMLIBS</tt>, not all libraries need
+ to be specified. The <tt>llvm-config</tt> tool will figure out the library
+ dependencies and add any libraries that are needed. The <tt>USEDLIBS</tt>
+ variable can still be used in conjunction with <tt>LINK_COMPONENTS</tt> so
+ that additional project-specific libraries can be linked with the LLVM
+ libraries specified by <tt>LINK_COMPONENTS</tt></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>
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
+ <dd>Specifies the name of a bitcode module to be created. A bitcode
module can be specified in conjunction with other kinds of library builds
- or by itself. It constructs from the sources a single linked bytecode
+ or by itself. It constructs from the sources a single linked bitcode
file.</dd>
+ <dt><a name="NO_INSTALL"><tt>NO_INSTALL</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>Specifies that the build products of the directory should not be
+ installed but should be built even if the <tt>install</tt> target is given.
+ This is handy for directories that build libraries or tools that are only
+ used as part of the build process, such as code generators (e.g.
+ <tt>tblgen</tt>).</dd>
<dt><a name="OPTIONAL_DIRS"><tt>OPTIONAL_DIRS</tt></a></dt>
<dd>Specify a set of directories that may be built, if they exist, but its
not an error for them not to exist.</dd>
<dl>
<dt><a name="AR"><tt>AR</tt></a> <small>(defaulted)</small></dt>
<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="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
not.</dd>
<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>
isn't one.</dd>
<dt><a name="ECHO"><tt>ECHO</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>
- <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.
The value may be empty on platforms that do not use file extensions for
executables (e.g. Unix).</dd>
- <dt><a name="FLEX"><tt>FLEX</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
- <dd>Specifies the path to the <tt>flex</tt> tool.</dd>
- <dt><a name="GCCLD"><tt>GCCLD</tt></a><small>(defaulted)</small></dt>
- <dd>Specifies the path to the <tt>gccld</tt> tool.</dd>
<dt><a name="INSTALL"><tt>INSTALL</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
<dd>Specifies the path to the <tt>install</tt> tool.</dd>
<dt><a name="LDFLAGS"><tt>LDFLAGS</tt></a><small>(configured)</small></dt>
<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="LLVMLD"><tt>LLVMLD</tt></a><small>(defaulted)</small></dt>
+ <dd>Specifies the path to the LLVM bitcode linker tool</dd>
+ <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>Specifies the path to the <tt>mkdir</tt> tool that creates
directories.</dd>
+ <dt><a name="ONLY_TOOLS"><tt>ONLY_TOOLS</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>If set, specifies the list of tools to build.</dd>
<dt><a name="PLATFORMSTRIPOPTS"><tt>PLATFORMSTRIPOPTS</tt></a></dt>
<dd>The options to provide to the linker to specify that a stripped (no
symbols) executable should be built.</dd>
<dt><a name="BuildMode"><tt>BuildMode</tt></a></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
+ <dt><a name="bitcode_libdir"><tt>bytecode_libdir</tt></a></dt>
+ <dd>The directory into which bitcode 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
CXX.Flags
DependFiles
DestArchiveLib
- DestBytecodeLib
+ DestBitcodeLib
DestModule
- DestRelinkedLib
DestSharedLib
DestTool
DistAlways
INCFiles
InternalTargets
LD.Flags
- LexFiles
- LexOutput
LibName.A
LibName.BC
LibName.LA
LLVMToolDir
LLVMUsedLibs
LocalTargets
- LTCompile.C
- LTCompile.CXX
- LTInstall
Module
ObjectsBC
ObjectsLO
ProjUsedLibs
Ranlib
RecursiveTargets
- Relink
SrcMakefiles
Strip
StripWarnMsg
ToolBuildPath
TopLevelTargets
UserTargets
- YaccFiles
- YaccOutput
</tt></p>
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