<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Unfortunately you’ll need to either modify the LLVM build system to build it, or you’ll need to build it yourself by hand. We don’t currently support building the blocks runtime.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m guessing the Docs are about 3 years out of date.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can feel free to file a bug at <a href="https://llvm.org/bugs/" class="">https://llvm.org/bugs/</a>, but I don’t know when it will be addressed, ant it is unlikely we will back port it to 3.7.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 29, 2015, at 11:24 AM, David Lobron <<a href="mailto:dlobron@akamai.com" class="">dlobron@akamai.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Chris and Alex,<br class=""><br class="">Many thanks for these replies. <br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I dug a little deeper into the history here. It looks like the blocks runtime hasn’t built in the CMake build system in a long time, and I don’t think it has ever been supported in the autoconf system.<br class=""><br class="">Support for building it with CMake was removed in April 2012 along with the old CMake build system (r154059) because it was broken. The old CMake support could probably be used as a base for bringing it back, but I would caution that you’re wading into seriously uncharted territory.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Is there an alternative build method I could use in order to create the blocks runtime on Linux? The docs seemed to recommend cmake ('cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../llvm'), but I'd be more than glad to try another way. I think blocks are required for GNUstep, since it's an Objective-C runtime.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">David</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>