Re: [RFC] Use LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB instead of BUILD_SHARED_LIBS

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com> writes:

> # Background
>
> Now in Guix. LLVM is built with configure flag
> "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=TRUE". According to
> https://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html. Build LLVM with `BUILD_SHARED_LIBS` is
> not recommended for non LLVM developing usage. LLVM says that packager
> should use `LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB` instead.

[...]

> # Solution
>
> I suggest to replace `-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=TRUE` with
> `-DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB:BOOL=TRUE`.

That's something I had been meaning to do for some time, but it fell
into the cracks.  I'd welcome this change; you may want to look at
'llvm-cling', which already builds using such flag.

Thanks,

Maxim