which LLVM source should I use in order to use SPIRV through DCompute ?

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 22:51:59 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote:
> Dear,
>
> Dcompute: https://github.com/libmir/dcompute need a SPIRV 
> capable LLVM.
> For this Dcompute project show 
> https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm as a SPIRV capable LLVM.
>
> But it is not an official llvm source, moreover the source is 
> outdated. Indeed it provide LLVM 5.0.0 while the current stable 
> is the 6.0.0

It should provide 6.0.0, I'll fix this at DConf.

> Furthermore kronos group provide too an old SPIRV capable LLVM 
> https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-LLVM (3.6.1)

Yep it's wayyy too old.

> So can I use official LLVM source in order to use dcompute ?

No. I plan to fix this after DConf.
> If no, why the SPIRV feature part added to LLVM was not send to 
> the upstream ?

Because Khronos hasn't got their act together or doesn't 
understand the importance of widespread support.