Getting Started with LLVM Core Libraries

Preface

LLVM is an inspiring software project that started with the passion for compilers of a single person, Chris Lattner. The events that followed the first versions of LLVM and how it became widely adopted later reveal a pattern that may be observed across the history of other successful open source projects: they did not start within a company, but instead they are the product of simple human curiosity with respect to a given subject. For example, the first Linux kernel was the result of a Finnish student being intrigued by the area of operating systems and being motivated to understand and see in practice how a real operating system should work.

For Linux or LLVM, the contribution of many other programmers matured and leveraged the project ...