[Gambas-user] [Gambas Bug Tracker] Bug #835: gambas3 doesn't build with llvm > 3.5

[Emil Lenngren]

It's quite bad the LLVM team dropped the old jit...
I haven''t really looked into it but it might not be that hard to port it
to the new MCJIT (see
http://blog.llvm.org/2013/07/using-mcjit-with-kaleidoscope-tutorial.html).
Hopefully the API for generating the code instructions are the same and
they only changed the parts to define/create and optimize/compile a
function.

/Emil

2015-11-11 0:26 GMT+01:00 <bugtracker at ...3416...>:

> http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker/edit?object=BUG.835&from=L21haW4-
>
> Comment #9 by gbWilly GAMBOS:
>
> I understand your problem but:
> - Gambas 3.5.4 doesn't support LLVM 3.6 and neither does the latest stable
> version 3.8.3
>
> If people on Debian still want to run Gambas, on a system that runs LLVM
> 3.6 or later, then gb.jit will need to be disabled to get Gambas installed.
>
> So, for now, the options are:
> 1. No Gambas on Debian systems running LLVM 3.6
> OR
> 2. Gambas with a disabled gb.jit on a Debian system running LLVM 3.6
> OR
> 3. Keep LLVM 3.5 alive in the Debain repo's for a while and use that
> version
> OR
> 4. Wait for a future Gambas version that might support LLVM 3.6
>
> But since Debain repo's are always miles behind with latest Gambas stable
> version, it might take years for option 4 to hit a Debian stable version.
>
> >From my perspective Gambas 3.8.2 should have been in sid or testing or
> even stable by now.
> Packaging Gambas 3.8.3 should be the thing to work on instead of bothering
> about a old Gambas 3.5.4 version.
>
> Is it not possible to have a later Gambas version in stable?
> If so, what are the obstacles? What does it take to get past those
> obstacles?
> Can the Gambas community do something to get that job done?
>
>
>
>
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