Re: [RFC] Use LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB instead of BUILD_SHARED_LIBS

[John Kehayias]

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 11:57 PM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:

> Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com> writes:
> [...]
>
>> # Solution
>>
>> I suggest to replace `-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=TRUE` with
>> `-DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB:BOOL=TRUE`.
>
> That's something I had been meaning to do for some time, but it fell
> into the cracks.  I'd welcome this change; you may want to look at
> 'llvm-cling', which already builds using such flag.
>

Just wanted to chime in that I ran across this unexpected configuration when 
debugging some unrelated issues (had to do with Mesa library loading, so was 
looking at its dependencies). I think it would be good to follow this more 
expected and typical configuration for building LLVM, at least as far as I 
understand it.

John