I'm trying to use LLVM on Windows, using the MinGW toolchain that comes
with Cygwin (gcc -mno-cygwin, not the standalone msys package). Has
anyone successfully built LLVM from sources with this toolchain?
The ./configure scripts automatically detects a Cygwin environment. I've
spent some time trying to let it know that it should compile for MinGW.
FWIW, here's what I've done:
* Put CFLAGS=-mno-cygwin and CXXFLAGS=-mno-cygwin in Makefile.config
(I could not get the configure script to do it on its own).
* In include/llvm/Config/config.h, disable HAVE_ARGZ_H and HAVE_LIBDL.
* Change the Makefile that calls tblgen.exe to pass relative filenames
to this tool (being compiled as a Win32 application, it cannot deal
with Cygwin absolute filename like /home/...).
Still, I get errors. Since I guess I'm not the first one trying to use
the Cygwin's MinGW compiler, I'd prefer to ask for help before adding
more hacks to the build system.
Actually, I think I could live with a binary distribution compiled for
MinGW. The binary package on the LLVM site (for LLVM 2.1) only contains
the programs, not the compiled libraries. Can I find those libraries
somewhere else?
Also, at some point, I'll be interested in compiling LLVM with the
Microsoft C compiler (with the command line tools, without Visual
Studio). Has anyone done that before?
1. install these components
2. install an SVN client
3. retrieve LLVM and Clang
4. ./configure
5. make
6. cd tools/clang
7. make
I end up with an error making the driver for Clang in step 7, but the libraries all build, which is what I needed. Apart from that everything was easy. In particular I didn't need to install any special llvm gcc. Neither did I have to do that when building on Ubuntu 7.10. I don't know if that instruction is relevant any more.
SVN head LLVM and Clang built out of the box for me a week ago on MSYS/MINGW, using the following files:
Thanks. However, I'm specifically interested in using the MinGW compiler shipped with Cygwin (i.e. "gcc -mno-cygwin") and using Cygwin tools (make, ...). Of course, I could probably install MSYS/MinGW just to compile LLVM and produce the libraries.
SVN head LLVM and Clang built out of the box for me a week ago on MSYS/MINGW, using the following files:
Ok, I tried to do the same. The compilations stops with the following
error message (actually, I got to the same point in my attempt to build
LLVM with the MinGW compiler shipped with Cygwin):
llvm[1]: Compiling MachineLoopInfo.cpp for Debug build
MachineLoopInfo.cpp: In instantiation of
`llvm::LoopBase<BlockT>::LoopBase(const llvm::LoopBase<BlockT>&) [with
BlockT = llvm::MachineBasicBlock]':
MachineLoopInfo.cpp:22: instantiated from here
MachineLoopInfo.cpp:22: error: explicit instantiation of
`llvm::LoopBase<BlockT>::LoopBase(const llvm::LoopBase<BlockT>&) [with
BlockT = llvm::MachineBasicBlock]' but no definition available
MachineLoopInfo.cpp: In instantiation of `const llvm::LoopBase<BlockT>&
llvm::LoopBase<BlockT>::operator=(const llvm::LoopBase<BlockT>&) [with
BlockT = llvm::MachineBasicBlock]':
.....
What's wrong? I know too little about C++ to understand the problem.
I created a Windows VM (VMWare on OSX) with MSYS/MinGW just for LLVM.
I've just updated from svn and cleaned everything to do a configure/make cycle. I had to remove the *.cpp files from lib/AsmParser/ and svn update again (this was mentioned in this mailing list) to fix a compile error - I had to do this on Ubuntu and OSX, so this isn't platform specific.
However, whereas my previous checkout compiled, this one fails where yours does. That's the cost of living on svn head I guess. I'm not prepared to update my OSX version because it's possibly/probably not platform specific.
BTW, you might want to checkout revision 44284. That works for me on OSX, and I retrieved it at about the same time as the my windows version that does compile.
Thanks. However, I'm specifically interested in using the MinGW compiler
shipped with Cygwin (i.e. "gcc -mno-cygwin") and using Cygwin tools
(make, ...). Of course, I could probably install MSYS/MinGW just to
compile LLVM and produce the libraries.
The short answer is: don't use cygwin shell with mingw compiler to build
LLVM. Reason actually is: LLVM uses tablgen in it's build process.
Tablegen is compiled with mingw for you, thus it won't work in cygwin
shell without some extra hacks.
There are two possibilities:
1. Use the hack used to cross-compilation of LLVM. In this case you'll
need cygwin-built tablgen. However, this won't work out-of-the-box,
because both tablegens will share the same extension. This process is
described in Getting Started with the LLVM System — LLVM 18.0.0git documentation
2. Feed all the paths to tablegen via cygdrive program. In this case
you'll need to tweak build system in several places:
- Detect, if you're really building mingw-on-cygwin
- Detect, where cygpath is located
- Feed paths provided to tablegen via cygdrive
There probably is possibility, that paths in some other places need to
be handled in the same fashion.