[llvm-dev] LLVM IR with MakeFile

[Dan Liew via llvm-dev]

On 14 May 2018 at 08:45, Muhui Jiang via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hi LLVM Devs
>
> I am not sure whether this is the right email to ask such kind of question.
> If not, please tell me the right mailing list.
>
> I am new to llvm and I am going to use llvm to do some task related to
> program analysis. Now I would like to generate llvm IR.
>
> I know that  we can use the command like "clang -S -emit-llvm" to get the
> llvm IR.
>
> However, I would like to have a makefile that can help me to generate the
> llvm IR.

You don't really want a makefile based approach. Maintaining your own
makefiles won't scale to large projects. It's better to use the build
system of the existing project

> For example, I am now compiling the coreutils. I use `./configure
> CC=/path/to/clang  CFLAGS='-S -emit-llvm` to try to generate the target
> makefile.It doesn't work due to the following error
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `lib/asnprintf.ll.ll', needed by
> `lib/libcoreutils.a'.  Stop.

Try https://github.com/travitch/whole-program-llvm