[llvm-dev] Building a program with LLVM on Unix

[Diego Novillo via llvm-dev]

There are several m4 macros that let you write autoconf detection for
llvm.  I recently needed to implement one.  Have a look here:

https://github.com/google/autofdo/blob/master/m4/ax_llvm.m4


Diego.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Russell Wallace via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Building LLVM itself involves Cmake, but what's the best way to build a C++
> program that needs to link with the LLVM libraries?
>
> If you're trying to optimise for making life as easy as possible for users
> and people creating binary packages, in the normal course of events,
> autotools is recommended. But the tutorial mentions running llvm-config to
> get things like library paths - does autotools know how to do this?
>
> (I mostly use Windows, not as familiar with Unix, so please let me know if
> the question I'm asking is not quite the same as the question I should be
> asking.)
>
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