Slang LLVM/Clang Library

The purpose of this project is to use the LLVM/Clang infrastructure to provide features for the Slang language compiler.

These features may include

• Use as a replacement for a file based downstream C++ compiler for CPU targets
• Allow the 'host-callable' to generate in memory executable code directly
• Allow parsing of C/C++ code
• Compile Slang code to bitcode
• JIT execution of bitcode

Currently only executing code via 'host-callable' mechanism is supported.

How to use

If the slang-llvm shared library/dll is available to Slang, Slang will automatically use LLVM JIT for host-callable compilations.

Limitiations

• Only supports host-callable

Building LLVM/Clang

This repo's external/build-llvm.sh script builds llvm with the correct options to be used by slang, please refer to that.