Hi,
I'm just about to commit static compilation support to LanguageKit and
edlc, and I'd like to be able to support this cleanly from GNUstep Make.
To compile a Smalltalk file to LLVM bitcode, you need to run:
edlc -c -f {smalltalk file name}
This will give you a .bc file. All of these should then be linked
together, along with the MsgSendSmallInt.bc file, with llvm-ld, which
will run link-time optimisations and then emit object code, which
should be linked with the program. Optionally, llvm-ld should be used
twice, once to combine all of the bitcode files, then opt should run
some additional optimisations, and then llvm-ld should be run again. I
will play a bit with the optimiser and see if I can find a sensible
set of optimisations to run each time.
My question is, what is the best way of adding support for this to
GNUstep Make? I would like to be able to have a line in my
GNUmakefiles like:
PROJECT_SMALLTALK_FILES = foo.st bar.st
Since there are some situations where JIT compilation is preferable,
it would also be nice if this could either copy the files to the
resources folder in the bundle, or statically compile and link them,
depending on the value of some other macro, although that's not
essential.
David
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