[cfe-commits] r77988 - in /cfe/trunk/www: get_started.html hacking.html

Eli Friedman eli.friedman at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 12:43:31 PDT 2009


Author: efriedma
Date: Mon Aug  3 14:42:28 2009
New Revision: 77988

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=77988&view=rev
Log:
Website updates for working with Visual Studio and making patches.
Patch by John Thompson!


Modified:
    cfe/trunk/www/get_started.html
    cfe/trunk/www/hacking.html

Modified: cfe/trunk/www/get_started.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/www/get_started.html?rev=77988&r1=77987&r2=77988&view=diff

==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/www/get_started.html (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/www/get_started.html Mon Aug  3 14:42:28 2009
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 
 <h2 id="build">Building Clang and Working with the Code</h2>
 
+<h3 id="buildNix">On Unix-like Systems</h3>
+
 <p>If you would like to check out and build Clang, the current procedure is as
 follows:</p>
 
@@ -120,6 +122,65 @@
 update</b></tt>. This will run <tt>svn update</tt> on all subdirectories related
 to subversion. </p>
 
+<h3 id="buildWindows">Using Visual Studio</h3>
+
+<p>The following details setting up for and building Clang on Windows using
+Visual Studio:</p>
+
+<ol>
+  <li>Get the required tools:</li>
+  <ul>
+    <li><b>Subversion</b>.  Source code control program.  Get it from:
+        <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html">
+        http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html</a></li>
+    <li><b>cmake</b>.  This is used for generating Visual Studio solution and
+        project files.  Get it from:
+        <a href="http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html">
+        http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html</a></li>
+    <li><b>Visual Studio 2005</b>
+        (VS 2008 may work also - cmake outputs VS2005 project files)</li>
+    <li><b>Python</b>.  This is need only if you will be running the tests
+        (which is essential, if you will be developing for clang).
+        Get it from:
+        <a href="http://www.python.org/download">
+        http://www.python.org/download</a></li>
+  </ul>
+
+  <li>Checkout LLVM:</li>
+  <ul>
+    <li><tt>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm</tt></li>
+  </ul>
+  <li>Checkout Clang:</li>
+  <ul>
+     <li><tt>cd llvm\tools</tt>
+     <li><tt>svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk clang</tt></li>
+  </ul>
+  <li>Run cmake to generate the Visual Studio solution and project files:</li>
+  <ul>
+    <li><tt>cd ..</tt>  (Change directory back to the llvm top.)</li>
+    <li><tt>cmake .</tt></li>
+    <li>The above, if successful, will have created an LLVM.sln file in the
+       llvm directory.
+  </ul>
+  <li>Build Clang:</li>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Open LLVM.sln in Visual Studio.</li>
+    <li>Build the "clang-cc" project for just the compiler front end.
+       Alternatively, build the "clang" project for the compiler driver
+       (note that the driver is currently broken on Windows),
+       or the "ALL_BUILD" project to build everything, including tools.</li>
+  </ul>
+  <li>Try it out (assuming you added llvm/debug/bin to your path).  (See the
+    running examples from above.)</li>
+  <li>See <a href="hacking.html#testingWindows">
+     Hacking on clang - Testing using Visual Studio on Windows</a> for information
+     on running regression tests on Windows.</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>Note that once you have checked out both llvm and clang, to synchronize
+to the latest code base, use the <tt>svn update</tt> command in both the
+llvm and llvm\tools\clang directories, as they are separate repositories.</p>
+
 <a name="driver"><h2>High-Level Compiler Driver (Drop-in Substitute for GCC)</h2></a>
 
 <p>While the <tt>clang-cc</tt> executable is a low-level frontend executable

Modified: cfe/trunk/www/hacking.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/www/hacking.html?rev=77988&r1=77987&r2=77988&view=diff

==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/www/hacking.html (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/www/hacking.html Mon Aug  3 14:42:28 2009
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@
       <li><a href="#docs">Developer Documentation</a></li>
       <li><a href="#debugging">Debugging</a></li>
       <li><a href="#testing">Testing</a></li>
+      <ul>
+	    <li><a href="#testingNonWindows">Testing on Unix-like Systems</a></li>
+	    <li><a href="#testingWindows">Testing using Visual Studio on Windows</a></li>
+	  </ul>
+      <li><a href="#patches">Creating Patch Files</a></li>
       <li><a href="#irgen">LLVM IR Generation</a></li>
     </ul>
     
@@ -61,13 +66,53 @@
   <h2 id="testing">Testing</h2>
   <!--=====================================================================-->
   
+  <p><i>[Note: The test running mechanism is currently under revision, so the
+  following might change shortly.]</i></p>
+  
+  <!--=====================================================================-->
+  <h3 id="testingNonWindows">Testing on Unix-like Systems</h3>
+  <!--=====================================================================-->
+  
   <p>Clang includes a basic regression suite in the tree which can be
   run with <tt>make test</tt> from the top-level clang directory, or
-  just <tt>make</tt> in the <em>test</em> sub-directory. <tt>make
-  report</tt> can be used after running the tests to summarize the
-  results, and <tt>make VERBOSE=1</tt> can be used to show more detail
+  just <tt>make</tt> in the <em>test</em> sub-directory.
+  <tt>make VERBOSE=1</tt> can be used to show more detail
   about what is being run.</p>
 
+  <p>The tests primarily consist of a test runner script running the compiler
+  under test on individual test files grouped in the directories under the
+  test directory.  The individual test files include comments at the
+  beginning indicating the Clang compile options to use, to be read
+  by the test runner. Embedded comments also can do things like telling
+  the test runner that an error is expected at the current line.
+  Any output files produced by the test will be placed under
+  a created Output directory.</p>
+  
+  <p>During the run of <tt>make test</tt>, the terminal output will
+  display a line similar to the following:</p>
+  
+  <ul><tt>--- Running clang tests for i686-pc-linux-gnu ---</tt></ul>
+  
+  <p>followed by a line continually overwritten with the current test
+  file being compiled, and an overall completion percentage.</p>
+  
+  <p>After the <tt>make test</tt> run completes, the absence of any
+  <tt>Failing Tests (count):</tt> message indicates that no tests
+  failed unexpectedly.  If any tests did fail, the
+  <tt>Failing Tests (count):</tt> message will be followed by a list
+  of the test source file paths that failed.  For example:</p>
+
+  <tt><pre>
+  Failing Tests (3):
+      /home/john/llvm/tools/clang/test/SemaCXX/member-name-lookup.cpp
+      /home/john/llvm/tools/clang/test/SemaCXX/namespace-alias.cpp
+      /home/john/llvm/tools/clang/test/SemaCXX/using-directive.cpp
+  </pre></tt>
+
+  <p>If you used the <tt>make VERBOSE=1</tt> option, the terminal
+  output will reflect the error messages from the compiler and
+  test runner.</p>
+
   <p>The regression suite can also be run with Valgrind by running
   <tt>make test VG=1</tt> in the top-level clang directory.</p>
 
@@ -77,6 +122,48 @@
   override LLVMGCC, as in: <tt>make LLVMGCC="ccc -std=gnu89"
   TEST=nightly report</tt> (make sure ccc is in your PATH or use the
   full path).</p>
+  
+  <!--=====================================================================-->
+  <h3 id="testingWindows">Testing using Visual Studio on Windows</h3>
+  <!--=====================================================================-->
+
+  <p>The cmake build tool is set up to create Visual Studio project files
+  for running the tests, "clang-test" being the root.
+  Unfortunately, the test runner scripts presently don't work on Windows.
+  This will be fixed during the test runner revision in progress.</p>
+  
+  <p>Note that the current and coming revised test runner is based on
+  Python, which must be installed.  Find Python at:
+  <a href="http://www.python.org/download">http://www.python.org/download</a>.
+  Download the latest stable version (2.6.2 at the time of this writing).</p>
+
+  <!--=====================================================================-->
+  <h2 id="patches">Creating Patch Files</h2>
+  <!--=====================================================================-->
+
+  <p>To return changes to the Clang team, unless you have checkin
+  privileges, the prefered way is to send patch files to the
+  cfe-commits mailing list, with an explanation of what the patch is for.
+  Or, if you have questions, or want to have a wider discussion of what
+  you are doing, such as if you are new to Clang development, you can use
+  the cfe-dev mailing list also.
+  </p>
+  
+  <p>To create these patch files, change directory
+  to the llvm/tools/clang root and run:</p>
+  
+  <ul><tt>svn diff (relative path) >(patch file name)</tt></ul>
+
+  <p>For example, for getting the diffs of all of clang:</p>
+  
+  <ul><tt>svn diff . >~/mypatchfile.patch</tt></ul>
+
+  <p>For example, for getting the diffs of a single file:</p>
+  
+  <ul><tt>svn diff lib/Parse/ParseDeclCXX.cpp >~/ParseDeclCXX.patch</tt></ul>
+
+  <p>Note that the paths embedded in the patch depend on where you run it,
+  so changing directory to the llvm/tools/clang directory is recommended.</p>
 
   <!--=====================================================================-->
   <h2 id="irgen">LLVM IR Generation</h2>





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