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This new test format is simpler and more flexible. It creates Lit ShTests on the fly that reuse existing substitutions (like %{cxx}) instead of having complex logic in Python to run the tests. This has the benefit that virtually no coding is required to customize how the test suite is run -- one can achieve pretty much anything by defining the appropriate substitutions in a simple lit.cfg file. For example, in order to run the tests on an embedded device after building with a specific SDK, one can set the %{cxx} and %{compile_flags} substitutions to use that SDK, and the %{exec} substitution to the ssh.py script currently used for .sh.cpp tests with a remote executor. Dealing with the SSHExecutor becomes unnecessary, since all tests are treated like ShTests. As a side effect of this design, configuration files for the test suite can be as simple as: config.substitutions.append(('%{cxx}', '<path-to-compiler>')) config.substitutions.append(('%{compile_flags}', '<flags>')) config.substitutions.append(('%{link_flags}', '<flags>')) config.substitutions.append(('%{exec}', '<script-to-execute>')) This should allow storing lit.cfg files for various configurations directly in the repository instead of relying on complicated logic in config.py to set up the right flags. I've found numerous problems in that logic in the past years, and it seems like having simple and explicit configuration files for the configurations we support is going to solve most of these problems. Specifically, I am hoping to store configuration files for testing other Standard Libraries in the repository. Improving the interaction with the test suite configuration is still a work in progress, so for now this test format reuses the substitutions and available features that are set up by the current config.py. This new test format should support pretty much everything that the current test format supports, however it will not be enabled by default at first to make sure we're satisfied with it. For a short period of time, the new format will require `--param=use_new_format=True` to be enabled, however it is a very short term goal to replace the current testing format entirely and to simplify the configuration accordingly. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77338 |
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llvm | ||
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README.md |
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
This directory and its sub-directories contain source code for LLVM, a toolkit for the construction of highly optimized compilers, optimizers, and run-time environments.
The README briefly describes how to get started with building LLVM. For more information on how to contribute to the LLVM project, please take a look at the Contributing to LLVM guide.
Getting Started with the LLVM System
Taken from https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html.
Overview
Welcome to the LLVM project!
The LLVM project has multiple components. The core of the project is itself called "LLVM". This contains all of the tools, libraries, and header files needed to process intermediate representations and converts it into object files. Tools include an assembler, disassembler, bitcode analyzer, and bitcode optimizer. It also contains basic regression tests.
C-like languages use the Clang front end. This component compiles C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ code into LLVM bitcode -- and from there into object files, using LLVM.
Other components include: the libc++ C++ standard library, the LLD linker, and more.
Getting the Source Code and Building LLVM
The LLVM Getting Started documentation may be out of date. The Clang Getting Started page might have more accurate information.
This is an example work-flow and configuration to get and build the LLVM source:
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Checkout LLVM (including related sub-projects like Clang):
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git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
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Or, on windows,
git clone --config core.autocrlf=false https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
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Configure and build LLVM and Clang:
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cd llvm-project
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mkdir build
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cd build
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cmake -G <generator> [options] ../llvm
Some common build system generators are:
Ninja
--- for generating Ninja build files. Most llvm developers use Ninja.Unix Makefiles
--- for generating make-compatible parallel makefiles.Visual Studio
--- for generating Visual Studio projects and solutions.Xcode
--- for generating Xcode projects.
Some Common options:
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-DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS='...'
--- semicolon-separated list of the LLVM sub-projects you'd like to additionally build. Can include any of: clang, clang-tools-extra, libcxx, libcxxabi, libunwind, lldb, compiler-rt, lld, polly, or debuginfo-tests.For example, to build LLVM, Clang, libcxx, and libcxxabi, use
-DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;libcxx;libcxxabi"
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-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=directory
--- Specify for directory the full path name of where you want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed (default/usr/local
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-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=type
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-DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=On
--- Compile with assertion checks enabled (default is Yes for Debug builds, No for all other build types).
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cmake --build . [-- [options] <target>]
or your build system specified above directly.-
The default target (i.e.
ninja
ormake
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The
check-all
target (i.e.ninja check-all
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CMake will generate targets for each tool and library, and most LLVM sub-projects generate their own
check-<project>
target. -
Running a serial build will be slow. To improve speed, try running a parallel build. That's done by default in Ninja; for
make
, use the option-j NNN
, whereNNN
is the number of parallel jobs, e.g. the number of CPUs you have.
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For more information see CMake
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Consult the Getting Started with LLVM page for detailed information on configuring and compiling LLVM. You can visit Directory Layout to learn about the layout of the source code tree.