[LLVMdev] building LLVM with just the C backend

[Chris Lattner]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:37 AM, Jay Foad wrote:

> I tried building LLVM 2.1 with no real target CPU backends enabled,  
> just the
> C backend, by hacking the configure script slightly:
>
>
> --- /home/foad/llvm/llvm-2.1/configure  2007-09-17  
> 22:37:52.000000000 +0100
> +++ configure   2007-12-13 10:29:41.000000000 +0000
> @@ -4762,7 +4762,7 @@
>   done
>   ;;
> esac
> -TARGETS_TO_BUILD="CBackend MSIL $TARGETS_TO_BUILD"
> +TARGETS_TO_BUILD="CBackend"
> TARGETS_TO_BUILD=$TARGETS_TO_BUILD
>
>
> It didn't work. I get these link failures:
> Is this something that ought to work? Any idea how to go about  
> fixing it?

I don't really know, however, things are slightly different on  
mainline now.  Now if you use --enable-targets=cbe you should just get  
the C backend without anything else, including the MSIL target.

I haven't tried it, but it should work :)

-Chris