This blog post announces pts-clang, a portable LLVM Clang C and C++ compiler release running on Linux i386 and Linux x86_64.
pts-clang is a portable Linux i386 version of the clang tool of the LLVM Clang compiler, version 3.3. C and C++ compilation is supported, other frontends (such as Objective C) were not tested. The tool runs on Linix i386 and Linux amd64 systems. Its libc-independent, all code is statically linked to the binary. It also contains statically linked linker (ld), so installing binutils is not necessary.
See all details in the most recent README.
If you dont have root access and you dont have the libc headers (e.g. in the libc6-dev package, sample file /usr/include/stdio.h) installed, you can still try pts-clang, with pts-xstatic. See the details in this blog post.
If you dont have /usr/include/stdio.h, install the libc development package:
$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
To be able to compile both i386 and amd64 binaries, and you have a recent Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu Precise) you can install the libc6-dev package for both architectures:
$ sudo apt-get intall libc6-dev:i386 libc6-dev:x86_64
Download and try pts-clang like this:
$ cd /tmp
$ rm -f pts-clang-latest.sfx.7z
$ wget http://pts.50.hu/files/pts-clang/pts-clang-latest.sfx.7z
$ chmod +x pts-clang-latest.sfx.7z
$ ./pts-clang-latest.sfx.7z -y # Creates the pts-clang directory.
$ cat >>hw.c <<END
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
return !printf("Hello, %s! ", "World");
}
$ pts-clang/bin/clang -s -O2 -W -Wall hw.c
$ ./a.out
Hello, World!
END
Use clang++ for compiling C++ code, but for that you have to install one of the libstdc++...-dev packages first.
By default (without the -xstatic or -xermine flags), the executables created by pts-clang are just as portable as those generated by gcc or clang. They are dynamically linked (unless -static is specified), thus they depend on the system libraries (e.g. /lib/libc.so.6).
If the -static flag is specified, then the executable becomes statically linked, but this doesnt provide real portability, because for calls such as getpwent(3) (getting info of Unix system users) and gethostbyname(3) (DNS resolution), glibc loads files such as libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so. On the target system those libraries may be incompatible with your binary, so you may get a segfault or unintended behavior. pts-xstatic solves this, because it uses uClibc.
If the -xstatic flag is specified, pts-xstatic is used to create a portable statically linked, Linux i386 executable, linked against uClibc.
If the -xermine flag is specified, Ermine is used to pack library and other dependencies to a single, portable executable. This can be even more portable than -xstatic, because Ermine can pack locale files, gconv libraries etc. Ermine is a Linux ELF portable executable creator: it takes a dynamically linked ELF executable, discovers its dependencies (e.g. dynamic libraries, NSS libaries), and builds a protable, statically linked ELF executable containing all the dependencies. See the features, licensing information and get Ermine from here. The result can be even more portable than -xstatic, because Ermine can pack locale files, gconv libraries etc. Not all the packing is automatic: use -xermine,... to specify packing flags to Ermine.
Because of these portability improvemenets, its easy to run pts-clang in a chroot environment.
Please note that even though Clang 3.3 supports C++11, much of that is implemented in the C++ standard library (GCCs libstdc++ or Clangs libc++) header files, and no attempt is made in pts-clang to provide the most up-to-date C++ standard library. With -xstatic, an old libstdc++ (the one from gcc-4.4.3) is provided, and without -xstatic the systems default libstdc++ will be used, which can be older than C++11.
The binaries here were created by P�ter Szab�, using existing LLVM Clang and uClibc cross compiler and other binaries, and writing some custom trampoline code. See the details in the GitHub repository.
All software mentioned in this blog post is free software and open source, except for Ermine.
The author of pts-clang is grateful and says thank you to the author of Ermine, who has provided a free-of-charge Ermine license, using which the portable clang.bin binary was created from the official Clang binary release (which is libc-dependent).
If you want to create portable Linux executables (and you dont care too much about file size), give Ermine a try! Its the most comfortable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive tool available.
Download the old version (v1) from here: http://pts.szit.bme.hu/files/pts-clang/pts-clang-xstatic-bin-3.3-linux-i386-v1.sfx.7z You can extract it with 7z (in the p7zip package), but you can also make it executable and run it, because its a self-extracting archive.
Clang itself is a cross-compiler, so it can generate object files for many architectures and operating systems (see the -target flag), but you also need a system-specific linker (not included) to build binaries or libraries. In newer versions (v2 and later), a copy of the GNU gold linker is also incuded.
This release introduces a non-standard command-line flag -xstatic which enables the Linux i386 target with static linking using the bundled uClibc library. The required .h and .a files, as well as a portable GNU ld linker binary are also included for the use of this flag. In newer versions (v2 and later) the files required by -xstatic are available in a separate download, see the details in this blog post.
Download version v0 from here: pts-clang-xstatic-bin-3.3-linux-i386.sfx.7z. You can extract it with 7z (in the p7zip package), but you can also make it executable and run it, because its a self-extracting archive.
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