[LLVMdev] ORC jit example (was: refs to LLVM consultants)

[Hans Wennborg]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Liam <pubsub at networkimprov.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>> The Windows snapshots are targeted at users who want to try out an
>> LLVM toolchain on Windows rather than LLVM developers, so they don't
>> include all the tools such as opt, llc, lli etc, or libraries.
>>
>> We experimented with shipping full builds, but they were much bigger.
>
>
> Bigger than the 3.6 release builds? Why would nightlies have less
> functionality than releases? Shouldn't a reduced build for tire kickers be
> based on a proven release?

The snapshots and the Win release are built the same way. Neither
contain libraries or development tools; they're both suitable for use
as a tool-chain, but not for consuming LLVM as a library.

> I'm simply a client of the new ORC library; I just need binaries.

The LLVM build doesn't have a good shared library story on Windows
yet. See e.g. this thread:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2015-April/084142.html