On Mar 17, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Jeremy Voorhis wrote:
> MacRuby is progressively following LLVM. However we do at the moment require
> a revision where ModuleProvider.h exists (I have a local patch that makes it
> work for future revisions too but it's not applied yet).
>
> # The LLVM_TOT variable can be passed to rake in order to sometimes build
> with more recent revisions than the one specified in the README.rdoc file,
> but it is only used for internal development and targets a special internal
> branch of LLVM, so it might not always work against the public trunk.
>
> Ideally we will target the final 2.7 once it's out, which shouldn't be long
> now.
>
> Do you intend to continue progressively tracking LLVM? LLVM-trunk is such a
> moving target, but so long as the llvm-c interface stays compatible this is
> no problem.
We don't really have a choice, the C API does not offer all the features we
need and we also need to follow the new LLVM changes internally. Hopefully, the
LLVM team is always helping us :-)
> Linkage may also be problematic since my FFI bindings depend on LLVM dylibs.
> I'm not sure how they would work with MacRuby yet.
It will very likely collide at runtime... until we un-export all symbols (but
the C extension ones) from the link phase, which should happen in theory for
our next release, 0.6.
Laurent
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