Ever wanted to build “native” assemblyish stuff in your cargo build scripts… something gcc crate cannot quite handle yet? Welcome to llvm_build_utils which provides a convenient API to pack your LLVM-IR or LLVM bytecode files into a ready to use archive full of machine code! It doesn’t even need LLVM installation and works on stable Rust¹!
No MSVC windows support yet, though
¹: May break between versions or be incompatible with some versions of Rust, though. We’ll try to document such breakages in the table below.
Compatibility table
Rustc version | This Library |
---|---|
1.8-1.11 | 0.1-0.2 |
Using llvm_build_utils
First, you’ll want to both add a build script for your crate (build.rs
) and also add this crate
to your Cargo.toml
via:
[]
# ...
= "build.rs"
[]
= "0.3"
Then write your build.rs
like this:
extern crate llvm_build_utils;
use *;
Running a cargo build
should produce libyourthing.a
which then may be linked to your Rust
executable/library.
License
llvm_build_utils is distributed under ISC (MIT-like) or Apache (version 2.0) license at your choice.