[cfe-dev] Building clang outside of LLVM (with CMake)

[Douglas Gregor]

On Feb 3, 2011, at 4:37 AM, Kevin André wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 18:24, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> We'd like to be able to consider LLVM as a stable library that Clang
>> depends on. This would allow us to build against an installed LLVM
> 
> Just a little question here: is this really possible? I thought that
> LLVM did not have a stable API across different releases?

We don't care about compatibility across versions; we care about having just one LLVM version x.y installed on the system, which other tools (Clang, LLDB, whatever) build against.

	- Doug