[LLVMdev] CLR or C++/CLI interface to IR building API

Scott Graham scott.llvm at h4ck3r.net
Tue Aug 12 17:25:59 PDT 2008


Hi, thanks for the pointer.

>From what I can tell, while vmkit targets VMs, the front-end is
written in C++, not in a managed language. Am I missing something? (or
was the "might" as vaguely hopeful as it sounded? :)

scott

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Bill Wendling <isanbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Take a look at this page. It might give you more information:
>
>  http://vmkit.llvm.org/
>
> -bw
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Scott Graham <scott.llvm at h4ck3r.net> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Our front end is written in a CLR language, and we're currently
>> interacting with the middle/back-end by writing out .ll files. This
>> was convenient to get started with, but they're getting to a "huge and
>> unwieldy" stage now.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone's attempted writing proxy/wrapper C++/CLI
>> classes so that the IR API can be used directly from managed
>> languages. Any tips/pointers/code/stories of horrible failure?
>>
>> thanks,
>> scott
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