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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Hi LLVM Devs,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>I recently finished working for Intel/Movidius, and thought that before I start working on some new LLVM project, that this would be a good time to discard all of my old practices (which began with v2.7, and has gathered crud over the years) and restart with a brand new fresh LLVM approach directly from head.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>In preparation for doing this, I would like to know what is the current status of using GIT vs SVN and should I start afresh with the GIT repositories? There is also the issue of Mono vs Multiple repositories, and which I select will be somewhat dictated by recommended best approach, and how big the Mono repository is to clone for the first time as I have ISP download caps to contend with. I would prefer to have a Mono installation, and that way be able to track future development of all LLVM projects; but I also need to be able to enable and disable subprojects cleanly as I need them - for instance, at this time I am not yet ready for LLD and I don’t need DragonEgg, so although they are in the Mono repository, I need to be able to configure my build to exclude them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Mostly I expect that I will be working on cross-compilers for embedded systems, so cross-compilation of the libraries is important. Historically I have done this with my own hand-crafted build systems (for LibC++ and Compiler-RT), but would like to do this with the integrated LLVM prescribed approach when possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>For testing I have never used the LLVM test-suite, nor the LIT and LNT frameworks, but in a fresh context I would like to get these up and running as soon as possible. My primary development platform is Windows, with various Linux distros for verifying my development. And if possible, I would like to construct a private BuildBot for each target I am working on that mirrors the LLVM community BuildBots - but this is also something I have never done. To date, all of my testing for cross-development systems has used bespoke test harnesses and I would like to learn how to run the standard testing too; especially on Windows (8.1 and 10).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Advice on getting set up with a fresh start would be greatly appreciated, as well as Newbie advice for how to test LLVM since in this regard I am a newbie.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'> MartinO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>