[LLVMdev] Building LLVM as a shared library using Visual C++ 2010?

[Paul Robinson]

There are a variety of "real world situations," some of them would benefit from
shared-library packaging and some would not.  Say you're building a set of
tools for internal deployment in your large-ish organization.
Factoring out the
Clang/LLVM bits into a shared library can reduce memory footprint when running
multiple tools, reduce disk footprint which therefore reduces
antivirus overhead,
and so forth.  The constant-flux aspect of the interface mostly means you can't
deploy the libraries separately from the tools that use them, but so what?
Logistically that's no different than how you would deliver static-linked tools.

Pogo

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Nathan Jeffords
<blunted2night at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to be that LLVM  doesn't make sense as a shared library. The
> surface area of the interface is massive, and in constant flux. I would
> think in real world situations, a domain specific interface with a more
> focused public interface would the right solution.
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Alan Garny <agarny at hellix.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> From what I have seen on this mailing list and elsewhere, it would seem
>> that it isn’t possible to build LLVM as a shared library using Visual C++.
>> Still, I would imagine that quite a few people are or would be interested in
>> it, so… is there any plan to support this any time soon? This, unless it’s
>> already supported in some way or another which I am not aware of…? I have
>> been able to build LLVM as a shared library using Autotools and GCC (through
>> MinGW) on Windows (as well as on Linux and Mac OS X), so it would really be
>> a shame if the same couldn’t be done using Visual C++…
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Alan.
>>
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