2 posts tagged with "kaleidoscope"

A few years ago I worked on reproducing the Kaleidoscope tutorial using LLVMSharp, a library that exposes C# bindings for LLVM. I updated multiple times the project to support the latest versions of llvm and the LLVMSharp bindings. In the last week I was busy moving to llvm 18 and I encountered a few difficulties.

First, the newest version of LLVMSharp available on nuget is 16.0.0, however the corresponding repo is updated to support version 18.0.0 of llvm. Luckily for me, there is a nighly nuget feed where a release candidate of LLVMSharp supporting version 18.0.0 is available. Please note that at the time of writing the latest llvm version is 19, LLVMSharp is updated inconsistently and it has been since the beginning for what I could see.

LLVM Kaleidoscope .NET​

If you're reading and learning about compilers in these days you will at some point find something about LLVM. I did and I tried to implement the Kaleidoscope tutorial from the official documentation using C#. I won't write a full blown tutorial and in the end I didn't actually follow the official tutorial as it was pretty hard for me to read C++ code.