[LLVMdev] issues registering passes in osx 10.8

[Joshua Cranmer]

On 8/21/2012 3:52 PM, Ashwin kumar wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is Ashwin. I have a mac running osx 10.8. I am new to LLVM and 
> have the version 3.1 installed. I am trying to get some LLVM transform 
> passes running on my machine. After having compiled the LLVM source 
> without making changes to the configuration files I am able to run the 
> LLVM gcc and clang. But I am having some trouble using the passes. I 
> tried loading the hello pass inside the transform directory of the 
> LLVM object tree.
>
> When I do an opt -load LLVMhello.dylib -help I dont see the registered 
> pass listed. Further when I load the option I get an undefined symbol 
> error from the linker. This is the command i issue and the output i get.
>

It turns out that, on OS X, using the installed tool makes it unusable 
for plugins. If you edit this line of Makefile.rules:
ProgInstall   = $(INSTALL) $(Install.StripFlag) -m 0755

so that it looks like this:
ProgInstall   = $(INSTALL) -m 0755

it should work after installing.

-- 
Joshua Cranmer
News submodule owner
DXR coauthor

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