[LLVMdev] LLD Standalone CMake build

Michael Spencer
Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:52:36 -0000

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm hoping to revive the LLD standalone CMake build.  I'm new to
this
> build but it looks like it borrowed code from an old version of
> compiler-rt, which I did some work on last year.  Like compiler-rt,
> I'd like to get the LLD build up running with only CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
> instead of defining custom variables like LLD_PATH_TO_LLVM_BUILD and
> LLD_PATH_TO_LLVM_SOURCE.  Any objection to that?
>
> Also, two files ELFLinkingContext.cpp and MachOLinkingContext.cpp
> include a private header from the LLVM source tree,
> "llvm/Config/config.h" to get access to HAVE_CXXABI_H.  Can the
> dependency on HAVE_CXXABI_H be removed?  If no, mind if I add a
> config.h.cmake to LLD's "include/lld/Config"?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg

Having the stand alone build is a pretty big obstacle to build system
changes, so it's not just a maintenance problem. I'd rather we
didn't
support it.

- Michael Spencer