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<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
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<p>The LLVM build system is designed to facilitate the building of third party
projects that use LLVM header files, libraries, and tools. In order to use
<li><tt>PROJ_SRC_ROOT</tt> - The root of the project's source tree.</li>
<li><tt>PROJ_OBJ_ROOT</tt> - The root of the project's object tree.</li>
<li><tt>PROJ_INSTALL_ROOT</tt> - The root installation directory.</li>
- <li><tt>LEVEL</tt> - The relative path from the current directory to the
+ <li><tt>LEVEL</tt> - The relative path from the current directory to the
project's root ($PROJ_OBJ_ROOT).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Include <tt>Makefile.config</tt> from <tt>$(LLVM_OBJ_ROOT)</tt>.</li>
<p>There are two ways that you can set all of these variables:</p>
<ol>
<li>You can write your own Makefiles which hard-code these values.</li>
- <li>You can use the pre-made LLVM sample project. This sample project
- includes Makefiles, a configure script that can be used to configure the
- location of LLVM, and the ability to support multiple object directories
+ <li>You can use the pre-made LLVM sample project. This sample project
+ includes Makefiles, a configure script that can be used to configure the
+ location of LLVM, and the ability to support multiple object directories
from a single source directory.</li>
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<a name="create">Create a Project from the Sample Project</a>
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<p>Follow these simple steps to start your project:</p>
the name of your project.</li>
<li>
-If you downloaded LLVM using Subversion, remove all the directories named .svn
-(and all the files therein) from your project's new source tree. This will
-keep Subversion from thinking that your project is inside
+If you downloaded LLVM using Subversion, remove all the directories named .svn
+(and all the files therein) from your project's new source tree. This will
+keep Subversion from thinking that your project is inside
<tt>llvm/trunk/projects/sample</tt>.</li>
<li>Add your source code and Makefiles to your source tree.</li>
</ol>
<p>That's it! Now all you have to do is type <tt>gmake</tt> (or <tt>make</tt>
-if your on a GNU/Linux system) in the root of your object directory, and your
+if your on a GNU/Linux system) in the root of your object directory, and your
project should build.</p>
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+<h2>
<a name="source">Source Tree Layout</a>
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+</h2>
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<p>In order to use the LLVM build system, you will want to organize your
source code so that it can benefit from the build system's features.
test procedure uses RUN lines in the actual test case to determine
how to run the test. See the <a
href="TestingGuide.html">TestingGuide</a> for more details. You
- can easily write Makefile support similar to the Makefiles in
+ can easily write Makefile support similar to the Makefiles in
<tt>llvm/test</tt> to use Dejagnu to run your project's tests.<br></li>
<li>
LLVM contains an optional package called <tt>llvm-test</tt>
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<a name="makefiles">Writing LLVM Style Makefiles</a>
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+</h2>
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<p>The LLVM build system provides a convenient way to build libraries and
executables. Most of your project Makefiles will only need to define a few
variables. Below is a list of the variables one can set and what they can
do:</p>
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<a name="reqVars">Required Variables</a>
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<dt>LEVEL
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+<h3>
<a name="varsBuildDir">Variables for Building Subdirectories</a>
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+</h3>
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<dt>DIRS
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+<h3>
<a name="varsBuildLib">Variables for Building Libraries</a>
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+</h3>
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<dt>LIBRARYNAME
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+<h3>
<a name="varsBuildProg">Variables for Building Programs</a>
-</div>
+</h3>
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+<div>
<dl>
<dt>TOOLNAME
<dt>USEDLIBS
<dd>
- This variable holds a space separated list of libraries that
- should be linked into the program. These libraries must either
- be LLVM libraries or libraries that come from your <b>lib</b>
- directory. The libraries must be specified by their base name.
- For example, to link libsample.a, you would set USEDLIBS to
- <tt>sample</tt>.
+ This variable holds a space separated list of libraries that should
+ be linked into the program. These libraries must be libraries that
+ come from your <b>lib</b> directory. The libraries must be
+ specified without their "lib" prefix. For example, to link
+ libsample.a, you would set USEDLIBS to
+ <tt>sample.a</tt>.
<p>
Note that this works only for statically linked libraries.
<p>
+ <dt>LLVMLIBS
+ <dd>
+ This variable holds a space separated list of libraries that should
+ be linked into the program. These libraries must be LLVM libraries.
+ The libraries must be specified without their "lib" prefix. For
+ example, to link with a driver that performs an IR transformation
+ you might set LLVMLIBS to this minimal set of libraries
+ <tt>LLVMSupport.a LLVMCore.a LLVMBitReader.a LLVMAsmParser.a LLVMAnalysis.a LLVMTransformUtils.a LLVMScalarOpts.a LLVMTarget.a</tt>.
+ <p>
+ Note that this works only for statically linked libraries. LLVM is
+ split into a large number of static libraries, and the list of libraries you
+ require may be much longer than the list above. To see a full list
+ of libraries use:
+ <tt>llvm-config --libs all</tt>.
+ Using LINK_COMPONENTS as described below, obviates the need to set LLVMLIBS.
+ <p>
+
+ <dt>LINK_COMPONENTS
+ <dd>This variable holds a space separated list of components that
+ the LLVM Makefiles pass to the <tt>llvm-config</tt> tool to generate
+ a link line for the program. For example, to link with all LLVM
+ libraries use
+ <tt>LINK_COMPONENTS = all</tt>.
+ <p>
+
<dt>LIBS
<dd>
To link dynamic libraries, add <tt>-l<library base name></tt> to
<tt>
LIBS += -lsample
</tt>
+ <p>
+ Note that LIBS must occur in the Makefile after the inclusion of Makefile.common.
+ <p>
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+<h3>
<a name="miscVars">Miscellaneous Variables</a>
-</div>
+</h3>
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+<div>
<dl>
<dt>ExtraSource
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+</div>
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<a name="objcode">Placement of Object Code</a>
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<p>The final location of built libraries and executables will depend upon
whether you do a Debug, Release, or Profile build.</p>
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<a name="help">Further Help</a>
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+</h2>
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<p>If you have any questions or need any help creating an LLVM project,
the LLVM team would be more than happy to help. You can always post your
Mailing List</a>.</p>
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- <a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a>
+ <a href="http://llvm.org/">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a>
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