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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ these facilities, a Makefile from a project must do the following things:</p>
<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>
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ these facilities, a Makefile from a project must do the following things:</p>
<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>
</ol>
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ choosing. You can place it anywhere you like. Rename the directory to match
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>
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ can find LLVM:
</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>
</div>
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ directories:</p>
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>
@@ -339,16 +339,41 @@ do:</p>
<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&lt;library base name&gt;</tt> to
@@ -361,6 +386,9 @@ do:</p>
<tt>
LIBS += -lsample
</tt>
+ <p>
+ Note that LIBS must occur in the Makefile after the inclusion of Makefile.common.
+ <p>
</dl>
</div>
@@ -441,7 +469,7 @@ href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM Developers
Mailing List</a>.</p>
</div>
-
+
<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
<hr>
<address>
@@ -453,7 +481,7 @@ Mailing List</a>.</p>
<a href="mailto:criswell@uiuc.edu">John Criswell</a><br>
<a href="http://llvm.org/">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a>
<br>
- Last modified: $Date: 2011-04-23 02:30:22 +0200 (Sat, 23 Apr 2011) $
+ Last modified: $Date: 2011-06-03 04:20:48 +0200 (Fri, 03 Jun 2011) $
</address>
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