Re: [llvm-dev] Trying to compile LLVM/Clang for iOS iPhoneSimulator gives errors

[Igor Gomon via llvm-dev]

Thank you Jacob for your answer. It is quite helpful. 

Sorry for not responding sooner - I wasn't getting messages from llvm-dev for awhile for some reason and had to re-subscribe from a different e-mail address.

So I followed the link at the bottom of your response and I am now using the following command to cross-compile for iOS:

cmake -S . -B build_iOS_make -G "Unix Makefiles"  -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=iOS "-DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=x86_64" -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS=clang -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`pwd`/_install -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO -DCMAKE_IOS_INSTALL_COMBINED=YES -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator13.4.sdk"

And with that I was able to compile some 61% of LLVM. 

Now I am stuck here:

[ 61%] Built target yaml-bench

[ 61%] Built target LTO_exports

[ 61%] Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libLTO.dylib

ld: unknown option: -z

clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

make[2]: *** [lib/libLTO.dylib] Error 1

make[1]: *** [tools/lto/CMakeFiles/LTO.dir/all] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

I am now going through the CMake scripts trying to figure out where that option is set and how to remove it.

Honestly, I am not even sure what that options means. I tried ignoring libLTO target but it had snowballing effect as that target is referenced in a number of other places it seems.

As for your remark about not being able to invoke the “fork” system call: my hope was to interpret C++ code on the target platform - the way lli tool does or JIT-compiling it when possible.

I am not sure about that, though - so wanted to give that a try to see how that goes.

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Best Regards,

Igor Gomon

Jacob Carlborg via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org 

Tue Mar 31 05:03:43 PDT 2020

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On 2020-03-30 23:37, Igor Gomon via llvm-dev wrote:

> I am trying to compile LLVM/Clang(10.0) for iOS Simulator (SDK 13.4)
The way code is compiled for iOS (simulator or native device) is to 
cross-compile it.

As far as I know, it's not possible to run a compiler on the simulator 
or device. You're not allowed to invoke the "fork" system call, that 
means you cannot create a new process. That means, if you do have a 
compiler for iOS, there's no way to run it.

BTW, the proper way to cross-compile for iOS using cmake is to set the 
following cmake variables:

CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=iOS
CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64 # architecture
CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=12.0 # minimum deployment target

The above are examples for targeting the native device. Not sure of the 
exact values for the simulator.

For more information, see: 
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.14/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.html#cross-compiling-for-ios-tvos-or-watchos

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/Jacob Carlborg

[Igor Gomon via llvm-dev]