llvm dev - Sep 2012 - [LLVMdev] help: the best ways of contribution for a beginner ?

Hello Developers,

    This is regards to my project plan.

I am an engineering student and passionate about everything related to
mobile, web and Compiler Design specially for embedded industry. I have
experience of C/C++ language, developing GPU programming using OpenCL and
shader language in Unix OS.

I want to work on tools to make GPU computing available more simply, such
as transparent LLVM optimizer and code generator. As I am newer to
LLVM/Clang developer community and want to be a part of this umbrella
project, so Please help me out of the following few questions :

   1.  What is the best ways of contribution for a beginner ?
   2.  How can I be a part of project based on LLVM/Clang, so that i could
   finish it successfully?


Thanks and Regards
Gopal Rastogi
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Gopal Rastogi <gopalrastogi.mmmec at gmail.com> writes:

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>    1.  What is the best ways of contribution for a beginner ?
You can start here:

http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html
>    2.  How can I be a part of project based on LLVM/Clang, so that i could
>    finish it successfully?
Just do your stuff, asking here or in the clang ml or in irc whenever
you need help, prepare a patch and send it to the LLVM-commits mailing
list. More details on the LLVM Developer Policy (obligatory reading):

http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html

Happy hacking!

I highly recommend lurking on the mailing lists (llvmdev,
llvm-commits, cfe-dev, cfe-commits) and lurking on IRC; this is to get
a feel for the community rules and expectations. As you get more
comfortable with the community, you will naturally begin to interact;
I wouldn't try to force this.

At the same time, you also will want to read all of the available
documentation about the development process and coding standards etc.

At the same time, you should get started checking out and building
LLVM and Clang. I wrote up a brief explanation of how I set up my
build environment here:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/22594.
Although there are Makefiles and the official repo is in SVN, I
believe that Git+CMake+Ninja like I use in my setup is fairly typical
among developers here. Also start using Clang as your main compiler
for things (e.g. for building LLVM/Clang itself; it's faster, anyway
:P ).

What you do next will depend on the type of thing that you want to do.

One last thing: the C++ API's (e.g., almost all of the code) are not
stable; you pretty much have to be working off of the top of the tree
constantly, and reintegrating daily (or at least weekly).

--Sean Silva

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Gopal Rastogi
<gopalrastogi.mmmec at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Developers,
>
>     This is regards to my project plan.
>
> I am an engineering student and passionate about everything related to
> mobile, web and Compiler Design specially for embedded industry. I have
> experience of C/C++ language, developing GPU programming using OpenCL and
> shader language in Unix OS.
>
> I want to work on tools to make GPU computing available more simply, such
as
> transparent LLVM optimizer and code generator. As I am newer to LLVM/Clang
> developer community and want to be a part of this umbrella project, so
> Please help me out of the following few questions :
>
>  What is the best ways of contribution for a beginner ?
>  How can I be a part of project based on LLVM/Clang, so that i could finish
> it successfully?
>
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Gopal Rastogi
>
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