[LLVMdev] xcodebuild and LLVM

Ted Kremenek kremenek at apple.com
Wed Sep 3 15:19:21 PDT 2008


On Sep 3, 2008, at 3:12 PM, John Criswell wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Is there a way to convince xcodebuild to build bitcode files for LLVM
> for an arbitrary Xcode project?  So far, I've been able to get
> xcodebuild to use LLVM by installing XCode 3.1 and using CC="llvm-gcc"
> on the command line.  I've also managed to get LLVM bitcode generates
> for intermediate files by using "CC="lvm-gcc -emit-llvm"; however,  
> this
> gives an error during linking stating that ld does not understand the
> -emit-llvm option.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -- John T.
>
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In addition to specifying CC, xcodebuild also consults the environment  
variables LD and LDPLUSPLUS for your linker commands (for C and C++  
sources respectively).  I would try LD=llvm-gcc and LDPLUSPLUS=llvm-g+ 
+ respectively.



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