[LLVMdev] LLVM Cygwin Run Errors

[Aaron Gray]

> I installed the cfrontend 1.5 and LLVM 1.5 from source in cygwin
> successfully using GCC3.4.3 and binutils2.15 (as in makefiles do not
> complain errors except some warnings).
>
> However when I do this, there are some errors like,
>
> ***************************************************************
> u0201201 at 9nnvf2ay /home/cfrontend/install/lib
> $ llvm-ranlib libiberty.a
> llvm-ranlib: Error opening archive file: libiberty.a
>
> ****************************************************************
> This happens to llvm-ranlib libiberty.a, llvm-ranlib libstdc++.a,
> llvm-ranlib libsupc++.a too. May I know what is the cause and how to
> solve it? (I saw a post similar to this, but there is no solution
> provided.)
>
>
> Another problem is when I run hello.c which is
>   #include <stdio.h>
>   int main() {
>     printf("hello world\n");
>     return 0;
>   }
>
> I got this,
> *******************************************************
> u0201201 at 9nnvf2ay /home
> $ llvm-gcc hello.c -o hello
> gccld: warning: Cannot find library 'user32'
> gccld: warning: Cannot find library 'kernel32'
> gccld: warning: Cannot find library 'advapi32'
> gccld: warning: Cannot find library 'shell32'
>
> ********************************************************
> The lli tool doesn't work as well.
>
> However, llvm-dis,llc,gcc hello.s -o hello.native,./hello.native work.
> (I have not try with the other tools yet)
>
> Your help will be very much appreciated.

Good going thats about where I got to :)

Thats about the state of play with Cygwin. llvm-gcc is broke on Cygwin.

I believe you can use the other llvm tools to get a hello world assembled 
and linked, using ld. Have not tried it yet though.

Aaron