install-llvm-action

A GitHub Action for downloading and installing LLVM and Clang binaries.

The binaries will be added to the relevant environment variables for the platform after installation (e.g., PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and/or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH). Caching is supported using the actions/cache@v2 action as shown in an example below. The directory the binaries are installed to will be put in the LLVM_PATH environment variable.

Released under the Apache License 2.0.

Inputs

version

Required The version of LLVM and Clang binaries to install.

This can be a specific LLVM and Clang version such as 3.6.2 or a minimum version like 3.6 or just 3. When specifying a minimum version, the highest compatible version supported by the platform will be installed (e.g., 3.6.2 for 3.6 or 3.9.1 for 3).

Note that when using minimum versions like 3 the specific version installed by this action may not be the same on every operating system. This is because some versions of the LLVM and Clang binaries do not exist for some operating systems.

directory

The directory to install LLVM and Clang binaries to. If not provided, C:\Program Files\LLVM is used as the default value on Windows and ./llvm is used on other operating systems.

This action puts the value of this option into the LLVM_PATH environment variable which allows for easy use of the directory containing the LLVM and Clang binaries in subsequent jobs (e.g., ${{ env.LLVM_PATH }}).

force-version

Whether to accept unsupported LLVM and Clang versions.

This action will by default reject unsupported LLVM and Clang versions. For example, if you want to download LLVM and Clang 69.0.0 but that version is not yet supported by this action, you can set this option to true to allow usage of this action.

Important: You may need to set ubuntu-version as well for this to work, this action will use the Ubuntu version for the most recent supported version which may not work for the version you are requesting. Also, there are no guarantees that this will work at all.

ubuntu-version

The version override of Ubuntu to use for the Linux platform.

For a given LLVM and Clang version, there are sometimes multiple binaries available targeting different versions of Ubuntu (e.g., 16.04 and 18.04). By default this action will download the binaries for the most recent LTS version binaries are available for. This option can be used to override this default and pick a different version.

cached

Whether the LLVM and Clang binaries were cached.

download-url

The URL to download LLVM and Clang binaries from.

This can be used if you want to download the LLVM and Clang binaries from a mirror of the GitHub releases for the llvm/llvm-project repository provided by a service like Artifactory.

auth

The Authorization header to use when downloading LLVM and Clang binaries.

This is unnecessary unless you are providing a custom download URL using the download-url input and you need to provide an Authorization header when downloading the LLVM and Clang binaries from the service targeted by that custom download URL.

env

Whether to set CC and CXX environment variables to Clang paths.

Outputs

version

The full version of LLVM and Clang binaries installed.

This will only differ from the value of the version option when specifying a minimum version like 3.6 or 3.

Example Usage

- name: Install LLVM and Clang
  uses: KyleMayes/install-llvm-action@v1
  with:
    version: "10.0"

Example Usage (with non-default installation directory):

- name: Install LLVM and Clang
  uses: KyleMayes/install-llvm-action@v1
  with:
    version: "10.0"
    directory: ${{ runner.temp }}/llvm

Example Usage (with caching)

- name: Cache LLVM and Clang
  id: cache-llvm
  uses: actions/cache@v2
  with:
    path: |
      C:/Program Files/LLVM
      ./llvm
    key: llvm-3.5
- name: Install LLVM and Clang
  uses: KyleMayes/install-llvm-action@v1
  with:
    version: "3.5"
    cached: ${{ steps.cache-llvm.outputs.cache-hit }}

Note: Based on some benchmarks on a GitHub Actions Ubuntu runner, an uncached install of the LLVM and Clang binaries using this action takes about 60 seconds but a cached install takes only about 20 seconds.

Linking to Installed Libraries (Linux)

If your build system requires a library from the installed LLVM and Clang binaries such as libclang.so, and it fails to find it, then it may help to create a symlink for the versioned .so using the following step which utilizes the LLVM_PATH environment variable set by this action:

- name: Symlink libclang.so (Linux)
  if: contains(matrix.os, 'ubuntu')
  run: sudo ln -s libclang-11.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libclang.so
  working-directory: ${{ env.LLVM_PATH }}/lib