<div dir="ltr">When you say '<span style="font-size:12.8px">configuring and installing an appropriate version of LLVM and its libraries yourself' - that is indeed what I did on my own machine (Ubuntu 14.04 apt-get thinks 3.4 is latest, so I'm currently building 3.8 from source) - but how would you recommend doing this on a user's machine?</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:17 PM, David Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djones@xtreme-eda.com" target="_blank">djones@xtreme-eda.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Russell Wallace via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Building LLVM itself involves Cmake, but what's the best way to build a C++ program that needs to link with the LLVM libraries?<div><br></div><div>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?<br><div><br></div><div>(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.)</div></div></div>
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