[llvm-commits] [release_11] CVS: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html
John Criswell
criswell at cs.uiuc.edu
Tue Dec 16 10:27:02 PST 2003
Changes in directory llvm/docs:
GettingStarted.html updated: 1.46.2.1 -> 1.46.2.2
---
Log message:
Updated for release 1.1.
Added information on FreeBSD and MacOS X.
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Diffs of the changes: (+81 -26)
Index: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html
diff -u llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.46.2.1 llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.46.2.2
--- llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html:1.46.2.1 Sat Dec 13 13:45:28 2003
+++ llvm/docs/GettingStarted.html Tue Dec 16 10:26:26 2003
@@ -182,24 +182,55 @@
<li>Linux on x86 (Pentium and above)
<ul>
- <li>Approximately 760 MB of Free Disk Space
+ <li>Approximately 918 MB of Free Disk Space
<ul>
- <li>Source code: 30 MB</li>
- <li>Object code: 670 MB</li>
- <li>GCC front end: 60 MB</li>
+ <li>Source code: 28 MB</li>
+ <li>Object code: 850 MB</li>
+ <li>GCC front end: 40 MB</li>
</ul></li>
- </ul></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <p></p>
<li>Solaris on SparcV9 (Ultrasparc)
<ul>
- <li>Approximately 1.24 GB of Free Disk Space
+ <li>Approximately 1.52 GB of Free Disk Space
+ <ul>
+ <li>Source code: 28 MB</li>
+ <li>Object code: 1470 MB</li>
+ <li>GCC front end: 50 MB</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <p></p>
+
+ <li>FreeBSD on x86 (Pentium and above)
+ <ul>
+ <li>Approximately 918 MB of Free Disk Space
+ <ul>
+ <li>Source code: 28 MB</li>
+ <li>Object code: 850 MB</li>
+ <li>GCC front end: 40 MB</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <p></p>
+
+ <li>MacOS X on PowerPC
+ <ul>
+ <li>No native code generation
+ <li>Approximately 1.20 GB of Free Disk Space
<ul>
- <li>Source code: 30 MB</li>
- <li>Object code: 1000 MB</li>
- <li>GCC front end: 210 MB</li>
+ <li>Source code: 28 MB</li>
+ <li>Object code: 1160 MB</li>
+ <li>GCC front end: 40 MB</li>
</ul></li>
- </ul></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
</ul>
<p>The LLVM suite <i>may</i> compile on other platforms, but it is not
@@ -253,7 +284,6 @@
</ul>
-
<p>The remainder of this guide is meant to get you up and running with
LLVM and to give you some basic information about the LLVM environment.
A <a href="#starting">complete guide to installation</a> is provided in the
@@ -348,22 +378,31 @@
<p>
If you have the LLVM distribution, you will need to unpack it before you
-can begin to compile it. LLVM is distributed as a set of three files. Each
+can begin to compile it. LLVM is distributed as a set of two files: the LLVM
+suite and the LLVM GCC front end compiled for your platform. Each
file is a TAR archive that is compressed with the gzip program.
</p>
-<p> The three files are as follows:
+<p> The files are as follows:
<dl compact>
- <dt>llvm.tar.gz
+ <dt>llvm-1.1.tar.gz
<dd>This is the source code to the LLVM suite.
<p>
- <dt>cfrontend.sparc.tar.gz
+ <dt>cfrontend-1.1.sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.gz
<dd>This is the binary release of the GCC front end for Solaris/Sparc.
<p>
- <dt>cfrontend.x86.tar.gz
+ <dt>cfrontend-1.1.i686-redhat-linux-gnu.tar.gz
<dd>This is the binary release of the GCC front end for Linux/x86.
+ <p>
+
+ <dt>cfrontend-1.1.i386-unknown-freebsd5.1.tar.gz
+ <dd>This is the binary release of the GCC front end for FreeBSD/x86.
+ <p>
+
+ <dt>cfrontend-1.1.powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0.tar.gz
+ <dd>This is the binary release of the GCC front end for MacOS X/PPC.
</dl>
</div>
@@ -391,6 +430,20 @@
directory and fully populate it with the LLVM source code, Makefiles,
test directories, and local copies of documentation files.</p>
+<p>
+If you want to get a specific release (as opposed to the most recent revision),
+you can specify a label. The following releases have the following label:
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ Release 1.1: <b>RELEASE_11</b>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ Release 1.0: <b>RELEASE_1</b>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
<p>Note that the GCC front end is not included in the CVS repository. You
should have downloaded the binary distribution for your platform.</p>
@@ -412,12 +465,12 @@
<ol>
<li><tt>cd <i>where-you-want-the-front-end-to-live</i></tt></li>
- <li><tt>gunzip --stdout cfrontend.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf
+ <li><tt>gunzip --stdout cfrontend-<i>version</i>.<i>platform</i>.tar.gz | tar -xvf
-</tt></li>
</ol>
-<p>If you are on a Sparc/Solaris machine, you will need to fix the header
-files:</p>
+<p>If you are using Solaris/Sparc or MacOS X/PPC, you will need to fix the
+header files:</p>
<p><tt>cd cfrontend/sparc<br>
./fixheaders</tt></p>
@@ -443,7 +496,8 @@
<p>Once checked out from the CVS repository, the LLVM suite source code must be
configured via the <tt>configure</tt> script. This script sets variables in
<tt>llvm/Makefile.config</tt> and <tt>llvm/include/Config/config.h</tt>. It
-also populates <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> with the Makefiles needed to build LLVM.</p>
+also populates <i>OBJ_ROOT</i> with the Makefiles needed to begin building
+LLVM.</p>
<p>The following environment variables are used by the <tt>configure</tt>
script to configure the build system:</p>
@@ -477,7 +531,7 @@
<dt><i>--with-llvmgccdir=LLVMGCCDIR</i>
<dd>
Path to the location where the LLVM C front end binaries and
- associated libraries will be installed. This must be specified as an
+ associated libraries were installed. This must be specified as an
absolute pathname.
<p>
<dt><i>--enable-optimized</i>
@@ -488,7 +542,8 @@
<p>
<dt><i>--enable-jit</i>
<dd>
- Compile the Just In Time (JIT) functionality. This is not available
+ Compile the Just In Time (JIT) compiler functionality. This is not
+ available
on all platforms. The default is dependent on platform, so it is best
to explicitly enable it if you want it.
<p>
@@ -521,10 +576,10 @@
<tt>LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH</tt> environment variable in your startup scripts.
This environment variable is used to locate "system" libraries like
"<tt>-lc</tt>" and "<tt>-lm</tt>" when linking. This variable should be set to
-the absolute path for the bytecode-libs subdirectory of the GCC front end
-install, or <i>LLVMGCCDIR</i>/bytecode-libs. For example, one might set
+the absolute path of the <tt>bytecode-libs</tt> subdirectory of the GCC front
+end, or <i>LLVMGCCDIR</i>/<tt>bytecode-libs</tt>. For example, one might set
<tt>LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH</tt> to
-<tt>/home/vadve/lattner/local/x86/llvm-gcc/bytecode-libs</tt> for the X86
+<tt>/home/vadve/lattner/local/x86/llvm-gcc/bytecode-libs</tt> for the x86
version of the GCC front end on our research machines.</p>
</div>
@@ -1091,7 +1146,7 @@
<address>
<a href="mailto:sabre at nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a><br>
<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
- Last modified: $Date: 2003/12/13 19:45:28 $
+ Last modified: $Date: 2003/12/16 16:26:26 $
</address>
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