On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 12:16 PM Fabiano Sidler via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I have a couple of questions:
> 1. Why is LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB not ON by default? Who needs a 2+GB
> bin/clang?
>
Because dynamic linking is slow - last I checked, at least for me/my setup,
the extra time spent in static linking was less than the time spent dynamic
linking when running all of LLVM & Clang's regression tests.
(that said, my clang binary is only 687MB - I guess yours is 2GB because
you're using debug info without split-dwarf (try LLVM_USE_SPLIT_DWARF if
it's suitable for your needs))
> 2. Why is BUILD_SHARED_LIBS output smaller than the one generated with
> LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB? Shouldn't it be the other way since the latter
> saves
> a lot of header information?
> 3. To make things easier for people who only want to compile llvm, clang
> and
> libcxx*, a small snippet like the following on a prominent place would
> be
> nice:
> === snip ==> VERSION=8.0.1
> wget
>
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-${VERSION}/llvm-${VERSION}.src.tar.xz
> wget
>
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-${VERSION}/cfe-${VERSION}.src.tar.xz
> wget
>
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-${VERSION}/libcxx-${VERSION}.src.tar.xz
> wget
>
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-${VERSION}/libcxxabi-${VERSION}.src.tar.xz
> tar xf llvm-${VERSION}.src.tar.xz
> tar xf cfe-${VERSION}.src.tar.xz
> tar xf libcxx-${VERSION}.src.tar.xz
> tar xf libcxxabi-${VERSION}.src.tar.xz
> mv cfe-${VERSION}.src llvm-${VERSION}.src/projects
> mv libcxx-${VERSION}.src llvm-${VERSION}.src/projects
> mv libcxxabi-${VERSION}.src llvm-${VERSION}.src/projects
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake \
> -DLLVM_ENABLE_FFI=ON \
> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
> -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON \
> -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="host" \
> -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
> ../llvm-${VERSION}.src
> cmake --build .
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/some/where -P cmake_install.cmake
> === snap ==>
> Greetings,
> Fabiano
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