llvm-6502/docs/CompilerDriverTutorial.html

131 lines
6.6 KiB
HTML
Raw Normal View History

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.4.1: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
<title>Tutorial - Using LLVMC</title>
<meta name="author" content="Mikhail Glushenkov &lt;foldr&#64;codedegers.com&gt;" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm-rst.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="document" id="tutorial-using-llvmc">
<h1 class="title">Tutorial - Using LLVMC</h1>
<table class="docinfo" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="docinfo-name" />
<col class="docinfo-content" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Author:</th>
<td>Mikhail Glushenkov &lt;<a class="reference" href="mailto:foldr&#64;codedegers.com">foldr&#64;codedegers.com</a>&gt;</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>LLVMC is a generic compiler driver, which plays the same role for LLVM
as the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gcc</span></tt> program does for GCC - the difference being that LLVMC
is designed to be more adaptable and easier to customize. Most of
LLVMC functionality is implemented via plugins, which can be loaded
dynamically or compiled in. This tutorial describes the basic usage
and configuration of LLVMC.</p>
<div class="contents topic">
<p class="topic-title first"><a id="contents" name="contents">Contents</a></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference" href="#compiling-with-llvmc" id="id3" name="id3">Compiling with LLVMC</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#using-llvmc-to-generate-toolchain-drivers" id="id4" name="id4">Using LLVMC to generate toolchain drivers</a></li>
<li><a class="reference" href="#references" id="id5" name="id5">References</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" id="compiling-with-llvmc" name="compiling-with-llvmc">Compiling with LLVMC</a></h1>
<p>In general, LLVMC tries to be command-line compatible with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gcc</span></tt> as
much as possible, so most of the familiar options work:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
$ llvmc -O3 -Wall hello.cpp
$ ./a.out
hello
</pre>
<p>This will invoke <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">llvm-g++</span></tt> under the hood (you can see which
commands are executed by using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-v</span></tt> option). For further help on
command-line LLVMC usage, refer to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">llvmc</span> <span class="pre">--help</span></tt> output.</p>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" id="using-llvmc-to-generate-toolchain-drivers" name="using-llvmc-to-generate-toolchain-drivers">Using LLVMC to generate toolchain drivers</a></h1>
<p>LLVMC plugins are written mostly using TableGen <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id2" id="id1" name="id1">[1]</a>, so you need to
be familiar with it to get anything done.</p>
<p>Start by compiling <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">plugins/Simple/Simple.td</span></tt>, which is a primitive
wrapper for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gcc</span></tt>:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
$ cd $LLVM_DIR/tools/llvmc
$ make DRIVER_NAME=mygcc BUILTIN_PLUGINS=Simple
$ cat &gt; hello.c
[...]
$ mygcc hello.c
$ ./hello.out
Hello
</pre>
<p>Here we link our plugin with the LLVMC core statically to form an
executable file called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mygcc</span></tt>. It is also possible to build our
plugin as a standalone dynamic library; this is described in the
reference manual.</p>
<p>Contents of the file <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Simple.td</span></tt> look like this:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
// Include common definitions
include &quot;llvm/CompilerDriver/Common.td&quot;
// Tool descriptions
def gcc : Tool&lt;
[(in_language &quot;c&quot;),
(out_language &quot;executable&quot;),
(output_suffix &quot;out&quot;),
(cmd_line &quot;gcc $INFILE -o $OUTFILE&quot;),
(sink)
]&gt;;
// Language map
def LanguageMap : LanguageMap&lt;[LangToSuffixes&lt;&quot;c&quot;, [&quot;c&quot;]&gt;]&gt;;
// Compilation graph
def CompilationGraph : CompilationGraph&lt;[Edge&lt;&quot;root&quot;, &quot;gcc&quot;&gt;]&gt;;
</pre>
<p>As you can see, this file consists of three parts: tool descriptions,
language map, and the compilation graph definition.</p>
<p>At the heart of LLVMC is the idea of a compilation graph: vertices in
this graph are tools, and edges represent a transformation path
between two tools (for example, assembly source produced by the
compiler can be transformed into executable code by an assembler). The
compilation graph is basically a list of edges; a special node named
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">root</span></tt> is used to mark graph entry points.</p>
<p>Tool descriptions are represented as property lists: most properties
in the example above should be self-explanatory; the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sink</span></tt> property
means that all options lacking an explicit description should be
forwarded to this tool.</p>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LanguageMap</span></tt> associates a language name with a list of suffixes
and is used for deciding which toolchain corresponds to a given input
file.</p>
<p>To learn more about LLVMC customization, refer to the reference
manual and plugin source code in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">plugins</span></tt> directory.</p>
</div>
<div class="section">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" id="references" name="references">References</a></h1>
<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id2" rules="none">
<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1" name="id2">[1]</a></td><td>TableGen Fundamentals
<a class="reference" href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/TableGenFundamentals.html">http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/TableGenFundamentals.html</a></td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<hr />
<address>
<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><img src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss-blue"
alt="Valid CSS" /></a>
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10-blue"
alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional"/></a>
<a href="mailto:foldr@codedgers.com">Mikhail Glushenkov</a><br />
<a href="http://llvm.org">LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br />
Last modified: $Date: 2008-12-11 11:34:48 -0600 (Thu, 11 Dec 2008) $
</address>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>