squishy 🐻‍❄️

A collection of new (LLVM 15) passes to compile normal-looking code to a callable, jump-to-able blob. Also includes a python library that provides a python interface to produce a blob for any architecture triple.

Inspired by SheLLVM, but should address some of the outdated issues with that project. Thanks to SheLLVM for the inspiration :)

Installing

Dependencies

• LLVM-15: Install with wget -qO - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh | sudo bash -s 15
• Meson 0.63+: Install with pip install -U meson and add ~/.local to your path

To set up LLVM-15 as alternatives you can run scripts/set-alternatives.sh

The easiest way to install squishy 🐻‍❄️ is from PyPi (sorry about the name, PyPi has weird rules). If an sdist is installed, meson must be installed and llvm-15 must be available.

python3 -m pip install pysquishy>=0.1.16

Building

squishy 🐻‍❄️ uses the meson modern build system. To build, first ensure that meson and ninja are installed, and that you have an installation of llvm-15 which you can get here.

Then, invoke:

meson build
cd build
meson compile

to produce the library.

Passes

1. Aggressive Inliner: Recursively applies alwaysinline and inlines function calls and global variables into the main function.