[cfe-users] Problems compiling within the clang source tree

[Eric Christopher]

Can you give the list of commands you're using to do the "copying" and
the configuration etc? Might help figure out where you're going wrong.

-eric

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Adrian Ortega <elfus0.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to compile the example 'clang-interpreter' from path
> 'tools/clang/examples'. I copied that folder into the build-llvm folder I
> created for building llvm and clang, specifically in folder
> 'tools/clang/tools/'. When I do 'make' all I get is
>
> make: *** No rule to make target
> `/home/blah/llvm/tools/clang/tools/clang-interpreter/Makefile', needed by
> `Makefile'.  Stop.
>
> I thought that my build was broken, but it was not. I tried downloading this
> example https://github.com/kevinaboos/LibToolingExample and placed it under
> the same 'tools/clang/tools/' folder as the clang interpreter. When I did
> 'make' it just compiled, created the Debug+Asserts folder in
> 'tools/clang/tools/LibToolingExample/Debug+Asserts/' and placed the binary
> under the '$LLVM_ROOT/Debug+Asserts/bin/' folder, and it works fine.
>
> I tried copying the makefile from that LibToolingExample and changed only
> the name of source file to be compiled, it didn't work, I get the same error
> I described above.
>
> From this I can tell that I'm doing something wrong as I don't fully
> understand the llvm-clang build system yet, I was able to compile an example
> but not the example provided in clang directory. Do you have any idea on
> what the problem is? Or do you have a hint of what Makefile or Documentation
> I should read to solve this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.D. I am able to able to compile the clang examples out of the llvm-clang
> source tree by providing the correct compiler flags, but I'd like to use the
> llvm-clang build system :)
>
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