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Fangrui Song authoredThe tool is called llvm-size, not llvm-objsize. Fixes: fcf1b6a3 ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM") Signed-off-by:
Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>Fangrui Song authoredThe tool is called llvm-size, not llvm-objsize. Fixes: fcf1b6a3 ("Documentation/llvm: add documentation on building w/ Clang/LLVM") Signed-off-by:
Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Building Linux with Clang/LLVM
This document covers how to build the Linux kernel with Clang and LLVM utilities.
About
The Linux kernel has always traditionally been compiled with GNU toolchains such as GCC and binutils. Ongoing work has allowed for Clang and LLVM utilities to be used as viable substitutes. Distributions such as Android, ChromeOS, and OpenMandriva use Clang built kernels. LLVM is a collection of toolchain components implemented in terms of C++ objects. Clang is a front-end to LLVM that supports C and the GNU C extensions required by the kernel, and is pronounced "klang," not "see-lang."
Clang
The compiler used can be swapped out via CC= command line argument to make. CC= should be set when selecting a config and during a build.
make CC=clang defconfig
make CC=clang
Cross Compiling
A single Clang compiler binary will typically contain all supported backends, which can help simplify cross compiling.
ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make CC=clang
CROSS_COMPILE is not used to prefix the Clang compiler binary, instead CROSS_COMPILE is used to set a command line flag: --target <triple>. For example:
clang --target aarch64-linux-gnu foo.c
LLVM Utilities
LLVM has substitutes for GNU binutils utilities. These can be invoked as additional parameters to make.
- make CC=clang AS=clang LD=ld.lld AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm STRIP=llvm-strip \
- OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump OBJSIZE=llvm-size \ READELF=llvm-readelf HOSTCC=clang HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar \ HOSTLD=ld.lld
Getting Help
- Website
- Mailing List: <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>
- Issue Tracker
- IRC: #clangbuiltlinux on chat.freenode.net
- Telegram: @ClangBuiltLinux
- Wiki
- Beginner Bugs
Getting LLVM
- http://releases.llvm.org/download.html
- https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
- https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html
- https://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html
- https://apt.llvm.org/
- https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/llvm/
- https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/tc-build
- https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/wiki/Building-Clang-from-source
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/