[cfe-dev] How to use clang and llvm for JIT, preferably via the C API

[David Blaikie via cfe-dev]

+Lang for JIT stuff

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Joel Andersson via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to add JIT support to our software for mathematical
> optimization (http://casadi.org), but it's proving difficult. Since we
> already support generation of C code, the natural approach is to generate C
> code (either as temporary files or as strings) and parse this code using
> clang. Although we've managed to implement a proof-of-concept, I'm
> struggling to implement something more maintainable.
>
> In particular, I'd like to use the C API (libclang), but I don't see how
> this can be combined with JIT. If I want to do clang+JIT, am I forced to
> use the (unstable) C++ API?
>
> Here is a stackoverflow post I posted on the subject (without luck):
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32254862/just-in-time-compilation-using-libclang-and-llvm-c
>
> Best regards,
> Joel
>
> P.S. I'm also struggling to set up our (CMake-based) build system so that
> it works with multiple llvm versions and multiple platforms. The
> "llvm-config" doesn't appear to have anything clang-related. But I guess
> that's a separate issue.
>
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