Swifty-LLVM

Swifty-LLVM is a Swifty interface for the LLVM compiler infrastructure, currently wrapping LLVM's C API.

See also: swift-llvm-bindings

Development/Use Requirements

Swift

This package requires Swift 6.2

LLVM

This package requires LLVM 20. Major versions of LLVM are not interchangeable or backward-compatible.

If you are using this package for development we strongly recommend the use of an LLVM with assertions enabled such as these; otherwise it's much too easy to violate LLVM's preconditions without knowing it. This package's devcontainer (in the .devcontainer subdirectory) has assert-enabled LLVM builds preinstalled in /opt/llvm-Debug and /opt/llvm-MinSizeRel.

Building with CMake and Ninja

1. Configure: choose a build-directory and a CMake build type (usually Debug or Release) and then, where <LLVM> is the path to the root directory of your LLVM installation,

   cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<build-type> \
     -D LLVM_DIR=<LLVM>/lib/cmake/llvm    \
    -G Ninja -S . -B <build-directory>
   

   (on Windows substitute your shell's line continuation character for \ or just remove the line breaks and backslashes).

   If you want to run tests, add -DBUILD_TESTING=1.

   Note: on macOS, if you are not using your Xcode's default toolchain, you may need -D CMAKE_Swift_COMPILER=swiftc to prevent CMake from using Xcode's default swift.

   If this command fails it could be because you have an LLVM without CMake support installed; we suggest you try one of these packages instead.

2. Build:

   cmake --build <build-directory>
   

3. Test (requires -DBUILD_TESTING=1 in step 1):

   ctest --parallel --test-dir <build-directory>
   

Building with CMake and Xcode

1. Generate Xcode project: choose a build-directory and then, where <LLVM> is the path to the root directory of your LLVM installation,

   cmake -D LLVM_DIR=<LLVM>/lib/cmake/llvm \
     -G Xcode -S . -B <build-directory>
   

   If you want to run tests, add -DBUILD_TESTING=1.

2. Profit: open the .xcodeproj file in the build-directory and use Xcode's UI to build and test.

Building with Swift Package Manager

You can skip the following steps if you are using development containers.

1. Install pkg-config.

• Ubuntu: sudo apt install pkg-config
• Windows: choco install pkgconfiglite (Chocolatey) or install it manually
• MacOS: sudo port install pkgconfig (Mac Ports) installed, and <YOUR LLVM>/pkgconfig added to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

2. Add your LLVM installation's pkgconfig subfolder to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Now you should be able to build and test the project:

swift build -c release
swift test -c release

Notes to macOS users:

1. Add platforms: [.macOS("xxx")] to Package.swift where xxx is your macOS version to address the warning complaining that an "object file was built for newer macOS version than being linked".
2. You may need to add the path to zstd library in llvm.pc.