[llvm-dev] how to enable exceptions for one component

[Shoaib Meenai via llvm-dev]

LLVM_ENABLE_EH is a global option, not a target property. For a single target, it’s more appropriate to use LLVM_REQUIRES_EH, which is also a variable you’ll need to set before calling add_llvm_component_library. You can do something like

set(LLVM_REQUIRES_EH_ORIGINAL ${LLVM_REQUIRES_EH})
set(LLVM_REQUIRES_EH YES)
add_llvm_component_library(LLVMTargetLibrary
  TargetFile1.cpp
  TargetFile2.cpp
  )
set(LLVM_REQUIRES_EH ${LLVM_REQUIRES_EH_ORIGINAL})

The implementation for this functionality lives in llvm/cmake/modules/AddLLVM.cmake [1], where you can see what effect LLVM_REQUIRES_EH has.

[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/llvm/cmake/modules/AddLLVM.cmake


From: llvm-dev <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org> on behalf of "Davis, Alan via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
Reply-To: "Davis, Alan" <adavis at ti.com>
Date: Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 5:09 PM
To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
Subject: [llvm-dev] how to enable exceptions for one component

I’d like to enable exceptions for a single target-specific LLVM component which is built as library. That is, I’d like to allow it to throw exceptions to its (non-LLVM) client to signal errors. In the CMakeLists.txt for the component, I tried:

add_llvm_component_library(LLVMTargetLibrary
  TargetFile1.cpp
  TargetFile2.cpp
  )

set_property(TARGET LLVMTargetLibrary PROPERTY LLVM_ENABLE_EH ON)

But it still compiles with –fno-exceptions.

Thanks for any advice.

-Alan
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