[LLVMdev] Android build patch

[Stephen Hines]

Actually libbcc doesn't provide the same interface as MCJIT (it is
definitely ahead-of-time compilation). It also inserts many
RenderScript-specific passes into the compilation, so I don't think it
would be all that useful.

Steve

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Kaylor, Andrew <andrew.kaylor at intel.com>wrote:

>  This is getting a bit off-topic, but since Renato brought up
> RenderScript, I wonder if the Android libbcc interface wouldn’t be a
> cleaner way to approach this problem.  It provides more or less the same
> functionality as MCJIT and in almost the same way.
>
>
>
> -Andy
>
>
>
> *From:* llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Renato Golin
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 05, 2013 12:24 AM
> *To:* James Lyon; Anton Smirnov
> *Cc:* Compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang/LLVM; LLVM Dev
>
> *Subject:* Re: [LLVMdev] Android build patch
>
>
>
> On 4 November 2013 23:45, James Lyon <jameslyon0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm trying to build LLVM on Android rather than the other way around!
> Really just to see if it can be done. I worked out the first problem (my
> code was written for the old JIT and I'd missed something in updating to
> the MCJIT to make it work on ARM). It still doesn't work, but at this point
> I have no idea why and it'll be a while before I get to look at it again:
> the Android debug tools simply crash and give no output whatsoever, so all
> I know is that the test app exits somewhere inside MCJIT::finalizeObject.
>
>
>
> Ha, yes, I always get confused.
>
>
>
> You should communicate with Anton (cc'd), as he was trying to do exactly
> that a few days ago. I'm also copying the LLVMLinux list, since this is the
> second thread on the subject in a short time, there might be some trend to
> make it work and add a buildbot or something like that.
>
>
>
> I think that, on the Android front, it would be really nice to have
> Clang/LLVM working well, especially on the JIT front, so that we could have
> a more generic JIT experience, rather than just Renderscript. We should
> think about that when creating AOSP images in the future.
>
>
>
> cheers,
>
> --renato
>
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