[SAoC] MLIR Support for LDC

[Roberto Rosmaninho]

On Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 06:22:35 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:

> This doesn't look quite right.
> You should `ninja install` LLVM (set an install path using 
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="..." when running cmake to generate the 
> ninja build file), such that you get a local LLVM installation 
> that contains also the MLIR stuff. Are you sure that MLIR is 
> built when building LLVM? Perhaps cmake argument 
> -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="mlir;compiler-rt;lld" is needed.
>
> -Johan

Actually, this is a complex question. Today, to get MLIR, you 
must clone LLVM and MLIR from different repositories by cloning 
MLIR into the LLVM projects[1]. The expectation is to have MLIR 
into LLVM 11 and then you will be able to get the project using 
the -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS, which will download the project on 
the same projects directory used today and referred on my CMake. 
I believe your point is that if users don't get this project on 
they LLVM, then they won't be able to use LDC, please correct me 
if I get it wrong. Well, the thing is I have to use some header 
files to implement MLIR to LDC, maybe I can put some Macros to 
not compile those files or codes that use MLIR if that's the main 
issue.

Regards,
Roberto Rosmaninho

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/mlir#getting-started-with-mlir