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| author | Gerion Entrup <32870336+gerion0@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-04-04 12:36:03 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-04-04 13:36:03 +0300 |
| commit | 2cefe8fd41c5025fd4c1f17d63c7b36bc58d6e36 (patch) | |
| tree | 31dd7512ce7b6717c7da53f5b51801e70b0a0ee9 | |
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docs: add LLVM tool section to dependencies [skip ci]
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md b/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md index 05c97e5..17c9991 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Dependencies.md @@ -395,6 +395,17 @@ llvm_dep = dependency( ) ``` +### Using LLVM tools +When using LLVM as library but also needing its tools, it is often beneficial to use the same version. +This can partially be achieved with the `version` argument of `find_program()`. +However, distributions tend to package different LLVM versions in rather different ways. +Therefore, it is often better to use the llvm dependency directly to retrieve the tools: + +```meson +llvm_dep = dependency('llvm', version : ['>= 8', '< 9']) +llvm_link = find_program(llvm_dep.get_variable(configtool: 'bindir') / 'llvm-link') +``` + ## MPI *(added 0.42.0)* |