[cfe-dev] RFC: How should Clang/LLVM runtime libraries be installed and found during link steps?

[Kostya Serebryany]

So, is there an agreement now?
In particular, is it fine to have the asan run-time for linux x86/x86_64 at
lib/clang/linux/TC.getArchName())/libclang_rt.asan.a ?

Thanks,

--kcc

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:

> Hey Chandler,
>
> We already have a certain precedent for how we do this on Darwin. The
> current library set is:
> --
> $ find lib/clang/3.1/lib
> lib/clang/3.1/lib
> lib/clang/3.1/lib/darwin
> lib/clang/3.1/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.10.4.a
> lib/clang/3.1/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.cc_kext.a
> lib/clang/3.1/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.eprintf.a
> lib/clang/3.1/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.ios.a
> lib/clang/3.1/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.osx.a
> lib/clang/3.1/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.profile_ios.a
> lib/clang/3.1/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.profile_osx.a
> --
> It's entirely custom based on what the driver needs, and I find this
> to be very workable.
>
> In general, I view this as very much an "implementation detail" and
> see no need to over engineer here w.r.t. defining some formal schema
> up front. We can easily change it over time as we figure out what
> works. Unlike GCC we *never* want users to use these library names
> directly, and they are rev-locked to the compiler, which is why we can
> get away with treating the exact layout as an implementation detail.
>
> My preference would be that runtime libraries for broad platform
> classes (basically, darwin, linux, win32) fall under top level
> directories in the lib resource dir. Beyond that, any further
> subdivision should match whatever is easiest for the platform
> maintainers and driver implementation. I think we should just wait and
> review the code as it comes in.
>
> Note that I'm going to be checking in some code soonish to start
> setting these things up for Linux... it will be minimal and simple,
> and we can refine it over time as need be.
>
>  - Daniel
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
> wrote:
> > It has come up when reviewing Kostya's patch to add the necessary support
> > fort linking in the Address Sanitizer runtime library that we need a
> proper
> > scheme and plan for deploying runtime libraries along with Clang.
> > I've CC'ed llvmdev on this for compiler-rt developers' input.
> > The key issues I see when locating runtime libraries are the following:
> > - These libraries should be shipped with Clang, not installed separately
> on
> > the system.
> > - They are likely to be somewhat tied to specific versions of Clang/LLVM.
> > - To support cross-compiling, we should be able to install multiple
> copies
> > of these libraries in a single Clang installation, and use the
> appropriate
> > one when targeting a particular platform.
> > - The above cross-compiling concern extends to ABI compatibility -- many
> of
> > the ABIs are already fixed in this space.
> > - These are different from builtin header files which can use the
> > preprocessor to internally differentiate their contents based on the
> target
> > platform.
> > My proposed solution:
> > - Base the path on the shared "resource directory" concept which already
> > exists in Clang.
> >   - Builtin header files are at <ResourceDir>/include already.
> > - Append a "base" triple directory name.
> > - Append a "lib" directory name for runtime libraries
> > - Place the runtime libraries as "libcompiler_rt_<sublib>.a" for each
> > sub-library component "<sublib>".
> > Example for "x/bin/clang" installation:
> >   x/bin/../lib/clang/3.1/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_rt_asan.a
> > What is a "base" triple? It is the simplest form we can reduce a triple
> to
> > while guaranteeing compatibility. The concept is best explained by an
> > example. All of the following triples reduce to the base triple of
> > "x86_64-linux-gnu":
> >   x86_64-linux-gnu
> >   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> >   x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >   x86_64-redhat-linux
> >   x86_64-redhat-linux6E
> >   ...
> > A different ABI could be expressed much like ARM's is with the last
> element:
> > "*-gnueabi". This would *not* reduce to the triple ending in '-gnu'. Due
> to
> > the adhoc and poorly spec'ed nature of existing triples, this will
> largely
> > be a fixed mapping much like already exists in the Clang driver, but
> > consolidated into LLVM's core triple logic.
> >
> > Open Questions:
> > How do we handle 'i686' vs 'i386'? Is it useful to have separate
> installed
> > libraries for i386 and i686 in order to get better performance for the
> > latter *and* maintain compatibility for the former? We could collapse to
> > either i386 or i686, and define either to mean whatever we want (for
> > example, Debian uses i386-linux-gnu for its "base" triple in multiarch,
> and
> > does *not* support i386 processors).
> > This scheme closely mirrors GCC's existing scheme with one exception: GCC
> > puts the triple first, and the version number second. I don't think this
> > matters greatly either way, but currently Clang puts its version number
> > first. I think this reflects the inherent design of Clang to be
> > cross-compiling by default, but it would be good to consider (even if we
> > reject) matching GCC's behavior here.
> > Should runtime libraries be installed as archives? .o files? .so files?
> > (gasp) bitcode? Some mixture of these? What mixture, and how do we
> decide? I
> > lean  toward .o files as bitcode where the linker supports it, normal .o
> > files where it supports those, and .a files only as a fallback. Not very
> > confident of these preferences though.
>
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