[LLVMdev] Practical --enable-shared LLVM builds.

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

On 12 Nov 2008, at 22:58, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

>   Thinking as a LLVM user, are shared libraries interesting to you? If
>   the answer is yes, is the one-big-dll mentioned above useful to you?

For me, the main motivation for building LLVM as shared libraries was  
disk footprint. LLVM built statically is 84 megabytes, whereas a  
shared build is 48 megabytes, both installed.

It might be worthwhile to reduce the number of distinct libraries. For  
what it's worth, I had to merge the JIT and Interpreter libraries into  
ExecutionEngine to avoid circular references. A similar approach (but  
done in a cleaner way) could be used for other components.

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Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen, stud. scient.
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