Building orc-rt

Getting Started

The basic steps needed to build orc-rt are:

• Checkout llvm-project:

  • cd where-you-want-llvm-to-live
  • git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git

• Configure and build orc-rt:

  CMake is the only supported configuration system.

  Clang is the preferred compiler when building and using orc-rt.

  • cd where you want to build llvm
  • mkdir build
  • cd build
  • cmake -G <generator> -DLLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES=orc-rt [options] <llvm-monorepo>/runtimes

  For more information about configuring orc-rt see :ref:CMake Options.

  • make orc-rt --- will build orc-rt.
  • make check-orc-rt --- will run the test suite.

  Shared and static libraries for orc-rt should now be present in llvm/build/lib.

• Optional: Install orc-rt

  Remember to use the CMake option CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to select a safe place to install orc-rt.

  • make install-orc-rt --- Will install the libraries and the headers

CMake Options

Here are some of the CMake variables that are used often, along with a brief explanation and LLVM-specific notes. For full documentation, check the CMake docs or execute cmake --help-variable VARIABLE_NAME.

CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING Sets the build type for make based generators. Possible values are Release, Debug, RelWithDebInfo and MinSizeRel. On systems like Visual Studio the user sets the build type with the IDE settings.

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH Path where LLVM will be installed if “make install” is invoked or the “INSTALL” target is built.

CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:STRING The C++ compiler to use when building and testing orc-rt.

orc-rt specific options

• option:: ORC_RT_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS:BOOL

  Default: ON

  Toggle assertions independent of the build mode.

• option:: ORC_RT_ENABLE_PEDANTIC:BOOL

  Default: ON

  Compile with -Wpedantic.

• option:: ORC_RT_ENABLE_WERROR:BOOL

  Default: ON

  Compile with -Werror