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Hi everyone,

I am trying to build a JIT for the RISC-V platform, but I could not figure out how. Could you provide some hints? Great thanks!

Initially, I found that LLVM has RISCV backend, and I compiled it following the instructions here. I got a cross-compiler version of clang (running on x86 and the generated binary runs on RISC-V), but the lli is still a X86 tool.

Then, I tried to build LLVM with riscv-gnu-toolchain, and I got many tools such as llc working on RISC-V properly. However, the lli still could not work properly. When I tried to process the LLVM bytecode file (.ll file) on RISC-V using lli, I got the error:

Furthermore, when I typed: lli -version, I got:
LLVM version 7.0.0svn
DEBUG build with assertions.
Default target: x86\_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Host CPU: (unknown)

But when I typed: llc -version (llc works fine), I got:
LLVM version 7.0.0svn
DEBUG build with assertions.
Default target: x86\_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Host CPU: (unknown)
Registered Targets:
riscv32 - 32-bit RISC-V
riscv64 - 64-bit RISC-V
x86 - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above
x86-64 - 64-bit X86: EM64T and AMD64

It seems that the lli tool does not support RISC-V target.

Could anyone give me some hints? Thank you so much!!

Best,

Rui