How to build clang/examples/PrintFunctionNames?

Question

I need some simple example to start using clang. I downloaded llvm and clang and built:

mkdir llvm-build
cd llvm-build
../llvm/configure
make

I tried to build PrintFunctionNames from clang examples but got an error message:

../../../../Makefile.common:61: ../../../../Makefile.config: No such file or directory ../../../../Makefile.common:69: /Makefile.rules: No such file or directory make: * No rule to make target `/Makefile.rules'. Stop.

Readme file says that only make is needed. So how to build this plugin?

Answer 1

Go into llvm-build/tools/clang, and run "make BUILD_EXAMPLES=1".

Answer 2

Most assuredly you will have your LLVM trunk checkout and under the tools path you have checked out Clang trunk as well [explained under building Clang via http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html.

Makefile Build Guide: http://llvm.org/docs/MakefileGuide.html

On OS X the build set up is a bit different, but on Debian Linux I'm building it daily as follows:

../trunk/configure --enable-target=x86_64,arm,cpp,cbe --with-built-clang --enable-pic --enable-polly --enable-shared --with-cxx-include-arch=x86_64 --enable-optimized --with-optimize-option=-Os --enable-assertions --disable-bootstrap --disable-multilib --enable-jit --enable-threads --no-create --no-recursion

then applying the make -j (n+1 number of cores) on the command for my Pentium D 945 system:

make [building against autotools make -j (n+1) doesn't always building llvm cleanly as it does against cmake. So if you want to run all cores, expect the possibility of running make -j(n+1) more than once to result in a clean build.

Standard form without accessing multiple cores:

make BUILD_EXAMPLES='1' //Read the note below

always results in a clean build, and if it doesn't report a bug to LLVM.

Note: If you're at the top level you can svn update the llvm trunk, project-test trunk and clang trunk as follows:

make trunk

Then go and run make again now that BUILD_EXAMPLES=1 is configured ahead of time.

make BUILD_EXAMPLES='1'

NOTE: Autotools will allow one to configure the BUILD_EXAMPLES='1' but will ignore the flag when you go to run make if you don't explicitly include BUILD_EXAMPLES='1' after make on the command line.

At the top of the LLVM tree you build against running make BUILD_EXAMPLES='1' will build the LLVM specific examples, then going inside your build/tools/clang path you then must run make BUILD_EXAMPLES='1' again to build the Clang examples.

Hence:

LLVM Top:

make BUILD_EXAMPLES='1' // for LLVM examples cd tools/clang make BUILD_EXAMPLES='1' // for Clang specific examples

Verify the examples installing under /usr/local/bin for LLVM and /usr/local/lib/ for Clang.

If you use CMAKE the default location for the binary examples is under /usr/local/examples

Answer 3

I followed the instructions at http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html with two exceptions:

1. My build dir is inside the source dir (i.e. cd llvm ; mkdir build), but I don't think it's relevant.

2. I issued cmake as so :

   cd build

   cmake -DLLVM_BUILD_EXAMPLES=1 -DCLANG_BUILD_EXAMPLES=1 ..

After that (and compiling of course (make -j8)) I could find the examples in the build dir :

find -iname '*printfunctionname*'
./lib/PrintFunctionNames.so
...