Good morning! I’m capra314cabra, who am under making new language.
On this article, I will tell you how to get tools of LLVM. You might think it should be easy but I felt not.
I hope you read this and save huge amount of time from reading heap of documents.
TL;DR Link to heading
At last, I downloaded and built all the code of LLVM on my PC.
And I got tools of LLVM, including lli.
So, what is LLVM? Link to heading
The LLVM compiler infrastructure project is a set of compiler and toolchain technologies, which can be used to develop a front end for any programming language and a back end for any instruction set architecture.
That is all. I won’t describe more. If you want to know more, please google them.
My first trial (Failed) Link to heading
I had believed that I could get it from the LLVM official site easily.
I went to LLVM release page and
tapped Windows (64bits) on LLVM9.0.0 section.
After a munite, I found a windows installer in the Download folder and ran it.
…It seemed to succeed, but I got nothing tools but Clang. I just wanted to get lli, llc and llvm-as! not Clang!
My second trial (Failed) Link to heading
Next, I thought that I could get binaries from other people who built LLVM.
I searched sites but I didn’t find binaries of LLVM 9.0. (There are many of older version.)
At last… Link to heading
At last, I downloaded and built all the code of LLVM.
These were five steps:
- Get
llvm-9.0.1.src.tar.xzfrom LLVM Project(Github). - Extract it. (I used 7zip.)
- Run CMake to get a solution file. It also works fine with the default values.
- Open it with Visual Studio and build a solution file. I recommend to set the configuration as “Release”.
- You can find many tools of LLVM in
Releasedirectory. - (Optional) Add the directory to PATH.
On my case, it requires only 2.8GB space.
See you later on LLVM world!