[LLVMdev] compiling java frontend

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 17, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Andreas Saebjoernsen wrote:

> Thanks, I am now working on compiling up VMKit.  When compiling  
> VMKit in my up-to-date svn checkout I get several error messages on  
> missing members of the class 'llvm::Type':
>
> PNetLib.cpp: In function ‘void decapsulePrimitive(n3::VMObject*,  
> const llvm::Type*, std::vector<llvm::GenericValue,  
> std::allocator<llvm::GenericValue> >&)’:
> PNetLib.cpp:694: error: ‘Int1Ty’ is not a member of ‘llvm::Type’
> PNetLib.cpp:698: error: ‘Int8Ty’ is not a member of ‘llvm::Type’
> PNetLib.cpp:702: error: ‘Int16Ty’ is not a member of ‘llvm::Type’
> PNetLib.cpp:706: error: ‘Int32Ty’ is not a member of ‘llvm::Type’
>
> There are several other errors on the same form. When inspecting the  
> source code of llvm::Type I do not see any member variables with  
> those names, but I see member functions on the form 'getInt1Ty 
> (LLVMContext &C)' where LLVMContextImpl have member variables with  
> those names. Do you know how to solve this problem?

vmkit probably expects to be built against llvm 2.5, I'd recommend  
asking on a vmkit list like http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vmkit-commits

-Chris