[swift-dev] Swift build on ppc64le platform

[Meghali Dhoble]

Thanks John, for the response.
We have a patch added already for ppc64 support at llvm, however still the
failures seen,
I will try to opt for 2nd  option and see if that helps.

 Thanks,
Meghali



From:	John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com>
To:	Meghali Dhoble <dhoblem at us.ibm.com>
Cc:	swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org>, Graydon Hoare
            <ghoare at apple.com>
Date:	08/28/2017 09:59 PM
Subject:	Re: [swift-dev] Swift build on ppc64le platform
Sent by:	rjmccall at apple.com



      On Aug 28, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Meghali Dhoble via swift-dev <
      swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:


      Hi,
      I have been working towards getting the swift source code built on my
      power (ppc64le) platform on Ubuntu16.04 OS.
      I am observing build issues and looking for some help here. Please
      redirect me if this is not the right place for these questions.

      I would like to understand the pre-requisites and the hardware
      configurations required to build this language.
      The error I am getting look like memory issues as the process is
      being killed abruptly. I am attaching the log herewith for reference.


I don't see anything like that in the log.  It looks like an ordinary
compiler error relating to our custom calling convention.

You need to either
1. implement swiftcc in LLVM's ppc64 backend and then teach Clang that it's
legal there or
2. configure Swift to not try to use it.

In the short term, I suspect that (2) is the right approach.  Graydon was
at least thinking about doing some work recently that would be aimed at
making it easier to do this kind of configuration; CC'ing him explicitly to
see if there's been progress there.

John.
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