Building LLVM from Source

• Alternatively you might get llvm13 from your package manager, e.g. brew on macos
• git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
• cd llvm-project
• git checkout tags/llvmorg-16.0.0
• mkdir -p build
• cd build
• edit the LLVM_BINUTILS_INCDIR correctly, or you get a fatal error: 'plugin-api.h' file not found
• for macosx it might be just brew install binutils. I didn't have ld.gold installed, so I did following https://llvm.org/docs/GoldPlugin.html
• On macOS (be sure to include the \ at the end of each line):

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" \
        $xcode \
        -DLLVM_CREATE_XCODE_TOOLCHAIN=ON \
        -DLLVM_BINUTILS_INCDIR=/usr/local/opt/binutils/include \
        -DLLVM_ABI_BREAKING_CHECKS=FORCE_OFF \
        -DLLVM_BUILD_EXTERNAL_COMPILER_RT=ON \
        -DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON \
        -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=OFF \
        -DLLVM_ENABLE_EH=ON \
        -DLLVM_ENABLE_FFI=ON \
        -DLLVM_ENABLE_LIBCXX=ON \
        -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON \
        -DLLVM_INCLUDE_DOCS=OFF \
        -DLLVM_INSTALL_UTILS=ON \
        -DLLVM_OPTIMIZED_TABLEGEN=ON \
        -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86 \
        -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS=clang\;lldb \
        -DLLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES=libcxxabi\;libcxx \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/clasp \
        ../llvm

• For Linux, omit the second and third lines, which relate to Xcode.
• cmake --build .
• cmake --build . --target install