<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 22, 2007, at 15:48, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris Lattner wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On a Debian/AMD64 host I am surprised that there is apparently no way to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">generate position independent code in shared object (i.e. to output</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">files which are easy dlopen-able without pain)?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I probably missed something obvious, but what?</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You're missing the fact that llvmc is highly experimental, and is not<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">really usable yet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Please use llvm-gcc directly, thanks!</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yes, but I want to compile LLVM assembly language (to PIC shared object<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">file on AMD64/Linux/Debian), not C.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Is llvm-gcc still needed in that case?</div></blockquote><br></div><div>No, use llc in that case.</div><div><br></div><div>From llc --help:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div> -relocation-model - Choose relocation model</div><div> =default - Target default relocation model</div><div> =static - Non-relocatable code</div><div> =pic - Fully relocatable, position independent code</div><div> =dynamic-no-pic - Relocatable external references, non-relocatable code</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: 12px; 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