[LLVMdev] Byte code libraries and linking

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Pertti Kellomäki wrote:
> I succesfully built a byte code version of newlib, so I tried to
> use it like this:
>
> 	$ llvm-link hello.bc $NEWLIB/libc.a -o linked.bc
>
> but apparently llvm-link only understands byte code files.

Right, llvm-link is the low level bytecode linking interface, not really 
useful for this sort of use.

> Does it even make sense to try to use llvm-link as a ld replacement
> this way? Or am I missing something else that could be used?

The 'gccld' tool understands archives.  Try:

gccld hello.bc .../libc.a -o linked.bc -link-as-library

"-link-as-library" causes it to emit a .bc file instead of trying to link 
an app.

-Chris

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