[LLVMdev] Getting started with LLVM on Win32 from non-C/C++ language

[Samuel Crow]

Hello Barry,

Are you still using Cygwin?  Why not try using MinGW instead.  I think Cygwin cannot create .DLL files or if it can, the build scripts are not set up to do it from Cygwin.  IIRC, Cygwin support is being dropped from later versions of LLVM so you'll have to either use Visual C++ to compile it or MinGW.  See http://www.mingw.org for downloads.

--Sam



----- Original Message ----
> From: Barry Kelly <bkelly.ie at gmail.com>
> To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 10:22:46 AM
> Subject: [LLVMdev] Getting started with LLVM on Win32 from non-C/C++ language
> 
> I'm looking to get started with LLVM as the back end for a compiler 
> that
ultimately should self-host.

>From an ease of use perspective, 
> the optimum on Windows would be a DLL
along with C header files that I can 
> translate into the front end's
language.

I read in the 
> FAQ:

http://llvm.org/docs/FAQ.html#langs

that "the C bindings in 
> include/llvm-c should help a lot". However,
looking at the contents of 
> llvm-2.6/Release after I've built it on
Cygwin, it looks like I'll have to 
> cobble together a DLL out of the
libraries myself.

I can't imagine I'm 
> the first to want a pre-packaged DLL containing all
the relevant bits, along 
> with DLL exports etc. Has someone else done
this 
> work?

Thanks,

-- Barry

-- 
> 
http://blog.barrkel.com/

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