STstaticfloat·Nov 5, 2021
In the Julia world, we make redistributable binaries for all sorts of things; you can find lots of packages here [0], and for LLVM in particular (which Julia uses to do its codegen) you can find _just_ libLLVM.so (plus a few supporting files) here [1]. If you want a more fully-featured, batteries-included build of LLVM, check out this package [2].
When using these JLL packages from Julia, it will automatically download and load in dependencies, but if you're using it from some other system, you'll probably need to manually check out the `Project.toml` file and see what other JLL packages are listed as dependencies. As an example, `LLVM_full_jll` requires `Zlib_jll` [3], since we build with support for compressed ELF sections. As you may have guessed, you can get `Zlib_jll` from [4], and it thankfully does not have any transitive depend
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encies.
In the Julia world, we're typically concerned with dynamic linking, (we `dlopen()` and `dlsym()` our way into all our binary dependencies) so this may not meet all your needs, but I figured I'd give it a shout out as it is one of the easier ways to get some binaries; just `curl -L $url | tar -zxv` and you're done. Some larger packages like GTK need to have environment variables set to get them to work from strange locations like the user's home directory. We set those in Julia code when the package is loaded [5], so if you try to use a dependency like one of those, you're on your own to set whatever environment variables/configuration options are needed in order to make something work at an unusual location on disk. Luckily, LLVM (at least the way we use it, via `libLLVM.so`) doesn't require any such shenanigans.
[0] https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/
[1] https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/libLLVM_jll.jl/releas...
[2] https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/LLVM_full_jll.jl/rele...
[3] https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/LLVM_full_jll.jl/blob...
[4] https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/Zlib_jll.jl/releases
[5] https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Gtk.jl/blob/0ff744723c32c3f...