LLVM Tutorial: Table of Contents

Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM

My First Language Frontend with LLVM Tutorial

This is the “Kaleidoscope” Language tutorial, showing how to implement a simple language using LLVM components in C++.

• 1. Kaleidoscope: Kaleidoscope Introduction and the Lexer
• 2. Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Parser and AST
• 3. Kaleidoscope: Code generation to LLVM IR
• 4. Kaleidoscope: Adding JIT and Optimizer Support
• 5. Kaleidoscope: Extending the Language: Control Flow
• 6. Kaleidoscope: Extending the Language: User-defined Operators
• 7. Kaleidoscope: Extending the Language: Mutable Variables
• 8. Kaleidoscope: Compiling to Object Code
• 9. Kaleidoscope: Adding Debug Information
• 10. Kaleidoscope: Conclusion and other useful LLVM tidbits

Building a JIT in LLVM

• 1. Building a JIT: Starting out with KaleidoscopeJIT
• 2. Building a JIT: Adding Optimizations – An introduction to ORC Layers
• 3. Building a JIT: Per-function Lazy Compilation
• 4. Building a JIT: Extreme Laziness - Using LazyReexports to JIT from ASTs

External Tutorials

Tutorial: Creating an LLVM Backend for the Cpu0 Architecture

A step-by-step tutorial for developing an LLVM backend. Under active development at https://github.com/Jonathan2251/lbd (please contribute!).

Howto: Implementing LLVM Integrated Assembler

A simple guide for how to implement an LLVM integrated assembler for an architecture.

Advanced Topics

1. Writing an Optimization for LLVM