[LLVMdev] installation query

John Criswell criswell at illinois.edu
Tue Jun 5 07:26:23 PDT 2012


On 6/4/12 1:05 PM, amruth.rd at knights.ucf.edu wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am a newbie to LLVM and I am trying to develop an LLVM pass. I came 
> across this page "Writing an LLVM Pass" which said, "First, configure 
> and build LLVM. This needs to be done directly inside the LLVM source 
> tree rather than in a separate objects directory. "

The documentation is wrong.  Your object tree can be the same as your 
source tree, or it can be a different directory entirely.  I've built 
LLVM passes using both configurations.

I am not sure why the document says that.

-- John T.


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