[LLVMdev] Volunteers needed for LLVM Release Team

[Lennart Augustsson]

Hi,

You don't need to install a C compiler to use LLVM from Haskell.
The ghc Haskell compiler comes with all the necessary bits to build
binaries (which happens to include a (hidden) GNU tool chain).
The header files are barely needed at all, just the include/llvm-c/*.h
files to pick up some enum values.  config.h and llvm-config are not
used at all.
The .a files are needed to link everything together.

If llvm.org is not going to put up header and library files then I'll
put them somewhere myself so as to make installation smooth for
Haskell users on Windows.

  -- Lennart


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Anton Korobeynikov
<anton at korobeynikov.info> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> I noticed that the mingw release only contains binaries and not
>> libraries nor header files.
> That's correct, because headers will contain, for example, absolute
> paths from the box I've built the libraries on (mostly in config.h and
> llvm-config script). I won't provide neither libraries nor headers,
> since I don't know how to make them 'path-neutral' without much hand
> work.
>
>> This would mean that people who want to use LLVM with the Haskell
>> bindings on Windows don't have to build and install LLVM (first
>> installing mingw), but they could just download binaries and install
>> those.
> I don't understand. If you want to use libraries / headers - then you
> will need a compiler anyway. Why not spent few dozens minutes to build
> LLVM?
>
> --
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University
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