Add LLVM to project using cmake

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I'm trying to add LLVM to a cmake project, using cygwin as a compiler. I downloaded LLVM from cygwin's installer (just installed all of the llvm related packages). The files are there, however I cannot include LLVM in my project. I tried using the official guide for 3.5.2 (the version it installed) and my CMakeLists.txt looks like

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.2)
project(Lang)

find_package(LLVM REQUIRED CONFIG)

message(STATUS "Found LLVM ${LLVM_PACKAGE_VERSION}")
message(STATUS "Using LLVMConfig.cmake in: ${LLVM_DIR}")


include_directories(${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS})
add_definitions(${LLVM_DEFINITIONS})
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11")

set(SOURCE_FILES main.cpp)

add_executable(Lang ${SOURCE_FILES})

llvm_map_components_to_libnames(llvm_libs support core irreader)

# Link against LLVM libraries
target_link_libraries(Lang ${llvm_libs})

However, I get a bunch of errors like these

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Am I doing something wrong? All I want to do is to use LLVM in my project.

You should figure out the libraries for the components you need. Take a look at stackoverflow.com/a/25783251/1938163 — Marco A.
– Marco A., Commented Jun 16, 2015 at 12:48
possible duplicate of Cmake and clang tooling linking error (outside of source tree) — Mark Garcia
– Mark Garcia, Commented Jun 16, 2015 at 14:30

Narice · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-25 18:19:39Z

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The answer here is stale.
In newer versions of LLVM, there is an included tool to include LLVM inside a CMake project.
Please see the documentation of how to embed LLVM in your project

You'll thus have this in your project CMakeLists.txt:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.4.3)
project(SimpleProject)

find_package(LLVM REQUIRED CONFIG)

message(STATUS "Found LLVM ${LLVM_PACKAGE_VERSION}")
message(STATUS "Using LLVMConfig.cmake in: ${LLVM_DIR}")

# Set your project compile flags.
# E.g. if using the C++ header files
# you will need to enable C++11 support
# for your compiler.

include_directories(${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS})
add_definitions(${LLVM_DEFINITIONS})

# Now build our tools
add_executable(simple-tool tool.cpp)

# Find the libraries that correspond to the LLVM components
# that we wish to use
llvm_map_components_to_libnames(llvm_libs support core irreader)

# Link against LLVM libraries
target_link_libraries(simple-tool ${llvm_libs})

This should work.
If you are having problems on windows, install the source package and not the binary package as suggested in this thread

if you have this error:

CommandLine Error: Option 'help-list' registered more than once!
LLVM ERROR: inconsistency in registered CommandLine options

replace the ${llvm_libs} in target_link_libraries() by LLVM you can see this github thread

edited May 25, 2019 at 18:19

answered May 25, 2019 at 17:49

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milahu Over a year ago

that is effectively the same code as in the question

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:01:20Z

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As indicated by Marco A. in the comments, the problem were missing libraries. This link helped resolve the issue, and everything seems to be working normally now. https://stackoverflow.com/a/25783251/1938163

Thank you.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:01

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answered Jun 16, 2015 at 14:22

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Marco A. Over a year ago

You're welcome :) Mark it as an answer and perhaps expand on the solution if you'd like.

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