Good Morning.
I am compiling Clang, following the instructions here Getting Started: Building and Running Clang
I am on linux and the compilation goes smoothly. But I think I am missing out something...
I want to compile ONLY clang, not all the related libraries. The option -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS=clang
seems doing what I want (check LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS
here)
If I use the instructions written there, I can compile, but I think I am compiling too much....a build
directory of 70GB seems too much to me...
I tried to download the official debian source and compile the debian package (same source code! just using the "debian way" to create a package from official debian source), just to compare...The compilation goes smoothly, is very fast, and the build
directory is much much smaller...as I expected...
I noticed in the first link I provided the phrase "This builds both LLVM and Clang for debug mode."...
So, anyone knows if my problem is due to the fact that I am compiling a "debug mode" version? if so, how could I compile the default version? and is there a way to compile ONLY clang without LLVM?
Yes, debug mode binaries are typically much larger than release mode binaries.
Cmake normally uses CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
to determine he build type. It can be set from the command line with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release"
o -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Debug"
(sometimes there are other build types as well).