X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2FREADME.clang;h=475bb1e2ed8b442178ca2615603974473373b5f5;hb=45dbb4dd23a0bcbeee66540e5baa85d549ac95fb;hp=9ad689f071b2a992e7a16f059dc1bb2f4d1fe78c;hpb=c292adae170fa8c27dca75963bdb0a9afc640e57;p=oweals%2Fu-boot.git diff --git a/doc/README.clang b/doc/README.clang index 9ad689f071..475bb1e2ed 100644 --- a/doc/README.clang +++ b/doc/README.clang @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -The biggest problem when trying to compile U-boot with clang is that +The biggest problem when trying to compile U-Boot with clang is that almost all archs rely on storing gd in a global register and clang user manual states: "clang does not support global register variables; this is unlikely to be implemented soon because it requires additional LLVM @@ -10,47 +10,46 @@ used to get its value. This does lead to larger code then strictly necessary, but at least works. NOTE: target compilation only work for _some_ ARM boards at the moment. -Also Aarch64 is not supported: Most notably boards which aren't using -the generic board will fail to compile, but since those are expected -to be converted this will solve itself. Boards which reassign gd in c -will also fail to compile, but there is in no strict reason to do so -in the ARM world, since crt0.S takes care of this. These assignments -can be avoided by changing the init calls but this is not in mainline yet. - -NOTE: without the -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0 flags u-boot will compile -fine, but llvm might hardcode addresses in movw / movt pairs, which -cannot be relocated and u-boot will fail at runtime. +Also AArch64 is not supported currently due to a lack of private libgcc +support. Boards which reassign gd in c will also fail to compile, but there is +in no strict reason to do so in the ARM world, since crt0.S takes care of this. +These assignments can be avoided by changing the init calls but this is not in +mainline yet. Debian (based) -------------- Binary packages can be installed as usual, e.g.: sudo apt-get install clang -To compile U-Boot with clang on linux without IAS use e.g.: -export TRIPLET=arm-linux-gnueabi && export CROSS_COMPILE="$TRIPLET-" -make HOSTCC=clang CC="clang -target $TRIPLET -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0 -no-integrated-as" rpi_b_defconfig -make HOSTCC=clang CC="clang -target $TRIPLET -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0 -no-integrated-as" all V=1 -j8 +Note that we still use binutils for some tools so we must continue to set +CROSS_COMPILE. To compile U-Boot with clang on linux without IAS use e.g.: +make HOSTCC=clang rpi_2_defconfig +make HOSTCC=clang CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- \ + CC="clang -target arm-linux-gnueabi" -j8 + +It can also be used to compile sandbox: +make HOSTCC=clang sandbox_defconfig +make HOSTCC=clang CC=clang -j8 FreeBSD 11 (Current): -------------------- Since llvm 3.4 is currently in the base system, the integrated as is -incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-eabi-binutils +incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-gnueabi-binutils is used instead. It needs a symlinks to be picked up correctly though: -ln -s /usr/local/bin/arm-eabi-as /usr/bin/arm-freebsd-eabi-as +ln -s /usr/local/bin/arm-gnueabi-freebsd-as /usr/bin/arm-freebsd-eabi-as # The following commands compile U-Boot using the clang xdev toolchain. # NOTE: CROSS_COMPILE and target differ on purpose! -export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-eabi- -gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd -no-integrated-as -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0" rpi_b_defconfig -gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd -no-integrated-as -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0" -j8 +export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-gnueabi-freebsd- +gmake rpi_2_defconfig +gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd" -j8 -Given that u-boot will default to gcc, above commands can be +Given that U-Boot will default to gcc, above commands can be simplified with a simple wrapper script, listed below. -/usr/local/bin/arm-eabi-gcc +/usr/local/bin/arm-gnueabi-freebsd-gcc --- #!/bin/sh -exec clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd -no-integrated-as -mllvm -arm-use-movt=0 "$@" - +exec clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd "$@"