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Clang Compiler Frontend

Clang Compiler Frontend

By : Ivan Murashko
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Clang Compiler Frontend

Clang Compiler Frontend

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By: Ivan Murashko

Overview of this book

Discover the power of Clang, a versatile compiler known for its compilation speed and insightful error and warning messages. This book will get you acquainted with the capabilities of Clang, helping you harness its features for performance improvements and modularity by creating custom compiler tools. While focused on Clang compiler frontend, this book also covers other parts of LLVM, essential to understanding Clang's functionality, to keep up with the constantly evolving LLVM project. Starting with LLVM fundamentals, from installation procedures to development tools, this book walks you through Clang's internal architecture and its integral role within LLVM. As you progress, you’ll also tackle optimizing compilation performance through features such as C++ modules and header maps. The later chapters cover tools developed using the Clang/LLVM, including clang-tidy for linting, refactoring tools, and IDE support, and feature many examples to illustrate the material. By the end of this book, you’ll have a solid understanding of Clang, different Clang Tools, and how to use them to their fullest potential.
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Part I: Clang Setup and Architecture
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Part II: Clang Tools
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Part III: Appendix
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1.1 Technical requirements

Downloading and building LLVM code is very easy and does not require any paid tools. You will require the following:

  • Unix-based OS (Linux, Darwin)

  • Command line git

  • Build tools: CMake and Ninja

We will use the debugger as the source investigation tool. LLVM has its own debugger, LLDB. We will build it as our first tool from LLVM monorepo: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git.

Any build process consists of two steps. The first one is the project configuration and the last one is the build itself. LLVM uses CMake as a project configuration tool. It also can use a wide range of build tools, such as Unix Makefiles, and Ninja. It can also generate project files for popular IDEs such as Visual Studio and XCode. We are going to use Ninja as the build tool because it speeds up the build process, and most LLVM developers use it. You can find additional information about the tools here: https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html.

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