llvm dev - Apr 2020 - Trying to compile LLVM/Clang for iOS iPhoneSimulator gives errors

Thank you Jacob for your answer. It is quite helpful.
Sorry for not responding sooner - I wasn't getting messages from llvm-dev
for awhile for some reason and had to re-subscribe from a different e-mail
address.

So I followed the link at the bottom of your response and I am now using
the following command to cross-compile for iOS:
cmake -S . -B build_iOS_make -G "Unix Makefiles" 
-DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=iOS
"-DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=x86_64" -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS=clang
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`pwd`/_install
-DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO
-DCMAKE_IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED=YES
-DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator13.4.sdk"

And with that I was able to compile some 61% of LLVM.
Now I am stuck here:

[ 61%] Built target yaml-bench
[ 61%] Built target LTO_exports
[ 61%] *Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libLTO.dylib*
ld: unknown option: -z
clang: *error: *linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
invocation)
make[2]: *** [lib/libLTO.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [tools/lto/CMakeFiles/LTO.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

I am now going through the CMake scripts trying to figure out where that
option is set and how to remove it.
Honestly, I am not even sure what that options means. I tried ignoring
libLTO target but it had snowballing effect as that target is referenced in
a number of other places it seems.

As for your remark about not being able to invoke the “fork” system call:
my hope was to interpret C++ code on the target platform - the way lli tool
does or JIT-compiling it when possible.
I am not sure about that, though - so wanted to give that a try to see how
that goes.

—
Best Regards,
Igor Gomon

*Jacob Carlborg via llvm-dev* llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
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On 2020-03-30 23:37, Igor Gomon via llvm-dev wrote:
>* I am trying to compile LLVM/Clang(10.0) for iOS Simulator (SDK 13.4)
*The way code is compiled for iOS (simulator or native device) is to
cross-compile it.

As far as I know, it's not possible to run a compiler on the simulator
or device. You're not allowed to invoke the "fork" system call,
that
means you cannot create a new process. That means, if you do have a
compiler for iOS, there's no way to run it.

BTW, the proper way to cross-compile for iOS using cmake is to set the
following cmake variables:

CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=iOS
CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64 # architecture
CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=12.0 # minimum deployment target

The above are examples for targeting the native device. Not sure of the
exact values for the simulator.

For more information, see:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.html#cross-compiling-for-ios-tvos-or-watchos

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/Jacob Carlborg
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