[llvm-dev] Proposal for CIRCT incubator project

[Aaron Smith via llvm-dev]

Onnx-mlir is another example of an upstream MLIR project linking against
the LLVM build directory.
https://github.com/onnx/onnx-mlir

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 1:04 AM Renato Golin via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for the update! This will fix the ugliest hack I have on my build
> script.
>
> I know I wasn't doing the nicest thing, but it's nice to see that what I
> needed wasn't that far away.
>
> I'll update my scripts and get back to you.
>
> Really appreciate, thanks!
> Renato
>
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020, 07:59 Stephen Neuendorffer, <
> stephen.neuendorffer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Renato,
>>
>> After looking at your testcase, it seems that you're trying to relocate a
>> 'build' directory and are having to rewrite absolute paths in the build
>> directory.
>> Build directories are not really relocatable, partly because of absolute
>> paths, and partly because of dealing with shared library rpaths IIRC.  I
>> tried your testcase
>> with an install directory and it seems to work (at least for the MLIR
>> parts) even if the install directory is relocated. This is because a
>> different set of cmake exports
>> are generated for install directories.  Also note also that MLIR does
>> install the .inc files generated by tablegen for this to work.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:51 AM Stephen Neuendorffer <
>> stephen.neuendorffer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Renato, I'm happy to kibitz on the build problems.  Cmake seems to be
>>> working well at this point for us, but it took quite a bit to get there and
>>> there are some pitfalls. I'm aware of some namespace issues in mlir, but
>>> haven't gotten around to dealing with them.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 3:47 AM Renato Golin <rengolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 22:43, Chris Lattner <clattner at nondot.org> wrote:
>>>> > I think that flang beat us to the punch as the first external MLIR
>>>> user :-) but thank you for your support Renato!
>>>>
>>>> Ah, but Flang is in the monorepo and builds together with LLVM, while
>>>> CIRCT (and my current project, Verona) "uses" MLIR/LLVM externally (as
>>>> a submodule).
>>>>
>>>> There are a number of build issues in both LLVM and MLIR that make it
>>>> awkward for projects in that category to use the LLVM libraries and
>>>> having a project in the llvm group will give us an "official" reason
>>>> to solve those problems more efficiently.
>>>>
>>>> I've been meaning to start a thread on that, but I need to collect all
>>>> the build issues I had in an email so we can discuss them. Not for
>>>> this thread, though. :)
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> --renato
>>>>
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