llvm-clojure-bindings

I can't stress the C++ api part of this enough. At the moment I'm building a Pascal compiler in Clojure for course work and when the time came to do byte code generation the first thing I looked to was the LLVM infrastructure both for ease of use and because it would trivially provide me with the ability to target non-x86 platforms. The reality of the matter is that interacting with non-java linked libraries is a real pain from every JVM language know of. Two years ago this was posted here [https://github.com/jasonjckn/llvm-clojure-bindings], but since then LLVM has gone through two major restructurings so it didn't work out of the box and I estimated that it would take less effort to build my own naive infrastructure than to patch this one & integrate it. As a result I'm generating code in terms of lists of newline terminated assembly st

I'm the author of this project. I think of this project as a technology demo. I wanted to how difficult it would be to write a minimalist compiler with LLVM -- it was pretty quick & easy. This is a great educational project as the code is short and to the point. For my parsing code: https://github.com/jasonjckn/llvm-clojure-bindings/blob/mast... I'm using a combinator parser library. This code both parses and builds the AST in one pass. The AST unsurprisingly looks like LISP code, here's an example AST https://github.com/jasonjckn/llvm-clojure-bindings/blob/mast... After that, all that's left is calling LLVM C API through JNA: https://github.com/jasonjckn/llvm-clojure-bindings/blob/mast... One advantage of using LLVM is you can leverage the C Standard Library from your code. In the example program, I forward declare 'cos' and 'printf', a