[LLVMdev] Tooling support for LLVM-GCC, or CLANG?

[Chris Lattner]

On Jun 16, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Granville Barnett wrote:
> I'm more interested in whether or not there are any projects in the  
> works that fuse the tools together to build a better IDE experience.  
> I forget which presentation it was, but one of the developers (I  
> *think* it was the gentleman that presented something on CLANG at  
> the dev's conference 2008) made a bit of a point by saying that  
> LLVM, unlike GCC has been built from the ground up with tooling in  
> mind. I appreciate that the tools that ship with LLVM use the  
> foundation in place, however, I am curious as to whether there are  
> any IDE projects that are building further upon this.

Hi Granville,

I'm not aware of anything publicly announced that is taking advantage  
of this yet.

-Chris

>
> Granville
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Bill Wendling <isanbard at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Granville
> Barnett<granvillebarnett at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I seem to remember that a big point of LLVM being built with  
> tooling support
> > out of the box was a major thing, however, I've not read anything  
> about any
> > tools which are actually taking advantage of the foundation LLVM  
> provides.
> > I'm not a Mac user, but I'd assume XCode would be a prime  
> candidate -
> > does/will XCode use LLVMs foundation to create a better IDE  
> experience?
> > Also, anyone know of similar efforts for Linux-based IDEs?
>
> Hi Granville,
>
> Clang itself takes advantage of the LLVM libraries
> (http://clang.llvm.org/). The static analyzer takes advantage of the
> clang libraries (same URL). There are a host of tools in the tools/
> sub-directory, which all use the LLVM libraries.
>
> :-)
>
> -bw
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