[LLVMdev] Status of Python bindings?

[Eric van Riet Paap]

Hi,

The person that developed the bindings is Jarno Seppänen , he sent me  
the code a few weeks ago. They were build with Boost.Python. The  
latest version was for LLVM 1.6 and the bindings seem to be  
unmaintained at the moment. From what I could tell they are very  
clean and probably easy to maintain/update to LLVM 1.7. From what I  
could tell from the email archive they were not far from being  
'integrated' in the LLVM codebase. I have no idea why that never  
happened. (probably just because it never happened). It would be nice  
if someone (you?) could adopt his code.

I asked Jarno if I could redistribute his code and he was positive  
about that so I will mail you the zip file privately.

There is another thing happening in this area. I am working on the  
LLVM backend for the PyPy project (see: http://codespeak.net/pypy ) .  
For this I also want python bindings. However they need to be  
bindings for a C library so Python's ctypes ffi library can handle  
them. LLVM currently is a C++ only library, so I am writing a tool to  
be able to specify the (LLVM) class layout in a boost-like way. The  
tools will then generate the C API and ctypes compatible bindings. (I  
was thinking of writing a ctypes backend for SWIG but that was one  
more codebase and my brain wouldn't handle that). It would probably  
be straightforward to generate a SWIG interface file (llvm.i) with my  
tool. This would (in a rather indirect way) create binding for many  
languages.

Please note that at this time I am note sure if I will create  
bindings for just what I need for PyPy or if I will try to support  
most of the C++ API.

If you want some Python LLVM bindings to play with today I would  
suggest you have a look at what I created 'by hand' (to get a feeling  
of the issues involved) in the llvmcapi and pyllvm subdirectories of  
http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist/pypy/translator/llvm/

have fun!
Eric



On Apr 12, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Pertti Kellomäki wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am involved in a compiler project for Transport
> Triggered Architectures (think VLIW and you are
> pretty close), and we are considering using LLVM.
> Browsing the list archives, I noticed an announcement
> of Python bindings for LLVM 1.5. Does anyone know the
> current status of the bindings?
> -- 
> Pertti
>
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