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The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

This directory and its sub-directories contain source code for LLVM,

a toolkit for the construction of highly optimized compilers,

optimizers, and run-time environments.

The README briefly describes how to get started with building LLVM.

For more information on how to contribute to the LLVM project, please

take a look at the

Contributing to LLVM guide.

Getting Started with the LLVM System

Overview

Welcome to the LLVM project!

The LLVM project has multiple components. The core of the project is

itself called "LLVM". This contains all of the tools, libraries, and header

files needed to process intermediate representations and converts it into

object files. Tools include an assembler, disassembler, bitcode analyzer, and

bitcode optimizer. It also contains basic regression tests.

C-like languages use the Clang front end. This

component compiles C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ code into LLVM bitcode

-- and from there into object files, using LLVM.

Other components include:

the libc++ C++ standard library,

the LLD linker, and more.

Getting the Source Code and Building LLVM

The LLVM Getting Started documentation may be out of date. The Clang

Getting Started page might have more

accurate information.

This is an example work-flow and configuration to get and build the LLVM source:

Checkout LLVM (including related sub-projects like Clang):

git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git

Or, on windows, git clone --config core.autocrlf=false https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git

Configure and build LLVM and Clang:

cd llvm-project

mkdir build

cd build

cmake -G [options] ../llvm

Some common build system generators are:

Ninja --- for generating Ninja

build files. Most llvm developers use Ninja.

Unix Makefiles --- for generating make-compatible parallel makefiles.

Visual Studio --- for generating Visual Studio projects and

solutions.

Xcode --- for generating Xcode projects.

Some Common options:

-DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS='...' --- semicolon-separated list of the LLVM

sub-projects you'd like to additionally build. Can include any of: clang,

clang-tools-extra, libcxx, libcxxabi, libunwind, lldb, compiler-rt, lld,

polly, or debuginfo-tests.

For example, to build LLVM, Clang, libcxx, and libcxxabi, use

-DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;libcxx;libcxxabi".

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=directory --- Specify for directory the full

path name of where you want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed

(default /usr/local).

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=type --- Valid options for type are Debug,

Release, RelWithDebInfo, and MinSizeRel. Default is Debug.

-DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=On --- Compile with assertion checks enabled

(default is Yes for Debug builds, No for all other build types).

cmake --build . [-- [options] ] or your build system specified above

directly.

The default target (i.e. ninja or make) will build all of LLVM.

The check-all target (i.e. ninja check-all) will run the

regression tests to ensure everything is in working order.

CMake will generate targets for each tool and library, and most

LLVM sub-projects generate their own check- target.

Running a serial build will be slow. To improve speed, try running a

parallel build. That's done by default in Ninja; for make, use the option

-j NNN, where NNN is the number of parallel jobs, e.g. the number of

CPUs you have.

For more information see CMake

Consult the

Getting Started with LLVM

page for detailed information on configuring and compiling LLVM. You can visit

Directory Layout

to learn about the layout of the source code tree.