In my ARM Bare Metal searches for using Clang/LLVM I stumbled across The ELLCC Embedded Compiler Collection that provides a one-stop build enviroment for all the LLVM tools for cross-platform compiling.

I’m not sure if they are trying to be a YAGARTO for LLVM vs. GCC. I waiting for a reply to post on their forum to understand the actual code changes to Clang/LLVM that they include (if any). I will update when I hear back. (Update: Read Rich’s full reply, it cleared everything up for me)

ELLCC is really just a weekly repackaging of clang/LLVM with two minor additions.
1. The triples of the form -ellcc- (where OS is linux for now, but will include others eventually) control how include files and libraries are found. You might notice for example that the #include path for ELLCC...

But in the mean time I figured I give it a build and include it in my GCC/ARM vs. Clang/LLVM-ARM testing but hit a build error on OS-X. On the linking of QEMU, libintl (GNU’s gettext) is not found:

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LINK  i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386
ld: library not found for -lintl
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[1]: *** [qemu-system-i386] Error 1
make: *** [subdir-i386-softmmu] Error 2

I do have gettext on my system, but it is in my “Cellar”“ as I use HomeBrew as my package manager and try not to install anything to ”/usr/bin" or other systems places that can muck everything up and thus can run parrallels versions of different applications (i.e. If I have to ‘sudo’ to an open-source software install, it is not going on my system unless they have a serious reason for it and I trust the code from a security viewpoint).

FYI: Brew does not ‘hard’ link gettext as compiling software outside of the HomeBrew can cause problems:

brew link gettext
Warning: gettext is keg-only and must be linked with --force
Note that doing so can interfere with building software.

So I mod’d the “ellcc/gnu/build” to force brew to link gettext before compiling/linking qemu and unlink it after.

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svn diff build
Index: build
===================================================================
--- build (revision 3780)
+++ build (working copy)
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@
     ppc-linux-user ppc64-linux-user ppc64abi32-linux-user sparc-linux-user"
 fi
 echo Configuring package qemu for $targets
+if [!  -e `which brew` ]; then
+    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
+fi
+brew link gettext --force
 qemu_target_list=`echo $qemu_target_list | sed -e "s/ /,/g"`
 make DIR=src/qemu CC=$cc HCC=$hcc AR=$ar TARGET=$host OS=$os \
     targetlist=$qemu_target_list haslibs=$haslibs \
@@ -76,6 +80,7 @@
     qemu.configure || exit 1

 make -C src/qemu || exit 1
+brew unlink gettext

 # Finally, install into the target specific bin dir.
 mkdir -p $bindir

Everything builds fine after that…

The entire file is here: