[LLVMdev] 64-bit Linux Support

[Bill Wendling]

Excellent! Thank you.

-bw

On 6/1/05, Al Stone <ahs3 at fc.hp.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:04 -0500, Misha Brukman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:50:35AM -0400, Bill Wendling wrote:
> > > It didn't look like there was a cftonend binary for the IA-64
> > > platform. Are we supposed to use the x86 binaries instead?
> >
> > The answer to that is that we don't have IA-64 in-house, so we don't
> > provide an IA-64 C/C++ front-end, but if someone were to contribute it
> > to us, we would gratefully host it.
> >
> > Note that if you use the x86 frontend, you will generate 32-bit LLVM
> > code, which is probably not what you want.  Instead, you want to build
> > your own frontend if there are none available for your platform:
> >
> > http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/CFEBuildInstrs.html
> >
> > I noticed that it does not list IA-64 anywhere, but I assume the
> > directions would be the same as for Linux/x86.  Let us know if that
> > works for you, and I'll amend the doc accordingly.
> >
> > Duraid, Al -- I am assuming you each built your own CFE to test on
> > IA-64, any pointers?
> 
> Sure.  All the Debian packages are at:
> 
>   http://www.toolchain.org/~ahs3/llvm
> 
> The 'llvm-cfe' package contains the CFE I build from scratch.  If
> you pull down the source for the packages from that location, there's
> a script called build.sh that starts from source tarballs and builds
> the binaries for the front-end and LLVM (I should probably submit that
> script to the utils directory for LLVM...).  The LLVM 1.4 packages
> are the most stable of the ones on the site; the 1.5 packages are in
> progress.
> 
> BTW, I also run a nightly tester for x86_64.  I'm not real happy with
> the results right now, and haven't had much time to spend on it, but
> they're at http://www.toolchain.org/~ahs3/Sites/amd64/ if you're
> interested.
> 
> --
> Ciao,
> al
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