[LLVMdev] Creating an LLVM Project

[Dan Gohman]

On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Martin Geisse wrote:
>
> 2. The line
>
> AutoRegen.sh
>
> ("Create a Project from the Sample Project", step 5) should be
> changed to
>
> ./AutoRegen.sh
>
> so it will work if . is not in the path.

Fixed.

>
>
> 3. In "Create a Project from the Sample Project", step 6 the
> arguments are used to "tell your project where the LLVM source/object
> tree is located. The tutorial doesn't really give a good hint which
> directory is meant. For example, the source is located partly in the
> lib/ and partly in the tools/ subdirectory of the main llvm
> directory. It might also refer to the main llvm directory, but the
> simple fact that the source and object directories - which are both
> within the main llvm directory -- must be specified separately
> suggests that this is not the case. In general, it left me (and
> probably others) clueless which path to specify.

It seems pretty intuitive to people already familiar with
autoconf-style srcdir!=objdir builds. Can you sugggest a
better wording?

Thanks,

Dan