<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is probably a Windows specific issue. If your subject contains Windows, perhaps some of the folks who are using llvm on Windows might chime in.<div><br></div><div>Evan</div><div><br><div><div>On May 26, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Nicolas Capens wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">After creating a new LLVM-based project, I faced an odd problem.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">ExecutionEngine::create<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>always retuned null. After some investigation I found out that it was due to the target architecture not getting registered. I’m using Visual C++ 2005 and in the X86TargetMachine.cpp file an extern variable<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">X86TargetMachineModule<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>is created to ‘ensure’ that the module is linked in. It works for the example projects, but not for the one I created. When I write a value to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">X86TargetMachineModule</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in another module, all is fine and dandy…<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Although it’s a viable workaround for now I was wondering if anyone knew a more elegant solution, or has an explanation why<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">X86TargetMachineModule<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>works for the example projects but not for mine.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Nicolas Capens<o:p></o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>LLVM Developers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:LLVMdev@cs.uiuc.edu">LLVMdev@cs.uiuc.edu</a> <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu</a><br><a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>