[llvm-dev] Building a program with LLVM on Unix

[David Jones via llvm-dev]

Given that the LLVM API changes constantly, any reasonable C++ program may
very well compile properly against only one specific version/release of
LLVM. The probability that you can properly build against whatever some
user has installed on some arbitrary system approaches zero.

If you accept this, then you likely work around it by configuring and
installing an appropriate version of LLVM and its libraries yourself. At
that point, you may just as well hard-code the path to what you've
installed into your build system. Perhaps hard-code only the path to
llvm-config, and bootstrap the rest from that.


On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Russell Wallace via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Building LLVM itself involves Cmake, but what's the best way to build a
> C++ program that needs to link with the LLVM libraries?
>
> If you're trying to optimise for making life as easy as possible for users
> and people creating binary packages, in the normal course of events,
> autotools is recommended. But the tutorial mentions running llvm-config to
> get things like library paths - does autotools know how to do this?
>
> (I mostly use Windows, not as familiar with Unix, so please let me know if
> the question I'm asking is not quite the same as the question I should be
> asking.)
>
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