[cfe-dev] Building clang outside of LLVM (with CMake)

[Óscar Fuentes]

Francois Pichet <pichet2000 at gmail.com>
writes:

> For example, my long term primary motivation in joining the clang
> project is to bring the static analyzer to work inside Visual Studio
> via a plugin. For such plugin any codegen/llvm libraries are not
> useful and not needed.
>
> is that what you mean?

Not really.

For this you need at least tblgen, Support and System, i.e. you need the
LLVM sources. You already can build a piece of clang without building
everything else. I'm not sure how `make install' works on this case,
though, but that is not a serious issue.