[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.html

[Jeff Cohen]

Changes in directory llvm/docs:

GettingStartedVS.html updated: 1.8 -> 1.9
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Log message:

Update to current situation.

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Diffs of the changes:  (+13 -3)

 GettingStartedVS.html |   16 +++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


Index: llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.html
diff -u llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.html:1.8 llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.html:1.9
--- llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.html:1.8	Fri Feb  9 09:59:08 2007
+++ llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.html	Wed Mar 28 15:27:51 2007
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
        </pre></li>
 
   <li><p>Next, compile the C file into a LLVM bytecode file:</p>
-      <p><tt>% llvm-gcc hello.c -emit-llvm -o hello.bc</tt></p>
+      <p><tt>% llvm-gcc -c hello.c -emit-llvm -o hello.bc</tt></p>
 
       <p>This will create the result file <tt>hello.bc</tt> which is the LLVM 
       bytecode that corresponds the the compiled program and the library 
@@ -267,12 +267,17 @@
       optimize or analyze it further with the <tt>opt</tt> tool, etc.</p> 
       
       <p><b>Note: while you cannot do this step on Windows, you can do it on a
-        Unix system and transfer <tt>hello.bc</tt> to Windows.</b></p></li>
+        Unix system and transfer <tt>hello.bc</tt> to Windows.  Important:
+        transfer as a binary file!</b></p></li>
 
   <li><p>Run the program using the just-in-time compiler:</p>
       
       <p><tt>% lli hello.bc</tt></p></li>
 
+      <p>Note: this will only work for trivial C programs.  Non-trivial programs
+        (and any C++ program) will have dependencies on the GCC runtime that
+        won't be satisfied by the Microsoft runtime libraries.</p>
+
   <li><p>Use the <tt>llvm-dis</tt> utility to take a look at the LLVM assembly
       code:</p>
 
@@ -286,6 +291,11 @@
 
       <p><tt>% cl hello.cbe.c</tt></p></li>
 
+      <p>Note: this will only work for trivial C programs.  Non-trivial programs
+        (and any C++ program) will have dependencies on the GCC runtime that
+        won't be satisfied by the Microsoft runtime libraries.  Currently, it
+        doesn't even work for trivial C programs such as the one above.</p>
+
   <li><p>Execute the native code program:</p>
 
       <p><tt>% hello.cbe.exe</tt></p></li>
@@ -342,7 +352,7 @@
 
   <a href="mailto:jeffc at jolt-lang.org">Jeff Cohen</a><br>
   <a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
-  Last modified: $Date: 2007/02/09 15:59:08 $
+  Last modified: $Date: 2007/03/28 20:27:51 $
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