On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 03:59:17 +0200
Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So upstream DOES NOT RECOMMEND to build shared libs to users!!!
> I am curious about the motivation.
>
> JFYI, shared llvm libs are required for lot of things. The incomplete
> list of examples that I am aware of are dri drivers and ispc Intel
> compiler.
>
For ports:
LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB:BOOL
If enabled, tools will be linked with the libLLVM shared library. Defaults
to OFF. Setting LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB to ON also sets LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB to
ON. This option is not available on Windows.
I do turn if off (to upstream default state):
# ls
/tmp/ports/usr/ports/devel/llvm19/work-default/stage/usr/local/llvm19/bin/clang-19
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 164M Dec 8 05:04:41 2025
/tmp/ports/usr/ports/devel/llvm19/work-default/stage/usr/local/llvm19/bin/clang-19*
# find /tmp/ports -name "*libLLVM.so*"
/tmp/ports/usr/ports/devel/llvm19/work-default/stage/usr/local/llvm19/lib/libLLVM.so.19.1
/tmp/ports/usr/ports/devel/llvm19/work-default/stage/usr/local/llvm19/lib/libLLVM.so
/tmp/ports/usr/ports/devel/llvm19/work-default/.build/lib/libLLVM.so.19.1
/tmp/ports/usr/ports/devel/llvm19/work-default/.build/lib/libLLVM.so
# make package
===> Building packages for llvm19-19.1.7_1
===> Building llvm19-19.1.7_1
(no errors here)
So ports also can be and should be staticly linked and it should not brake
anything.
