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diff --git a/Documentation/how-to-build-ObjectWriter.md b/Documentation/how-to-build-ObjectWriter.md index 3f20e177c..8999a4403 100644 --- a/Documentation/how-to-build-ObjectWriter.md +++ b/Documentation/how-to-build-ObjectWriter.md @@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ ObjWriter is based on LLVM, so it requires recent CMake and GCC/Clang to build LLVM. See [LLVM requirements](http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#requirements) for more details. +`build.cmd`/`build.sh` script downloads a pre-built ObjWriter NuGet package. ObjWriter library is not built by default because +it takes a long time and changes rarely. + +To build a fresh ObjWriter, pass additional `objwriter` argument to the `build.cmd`/`build.sh` script. It will cause the build to clone +a matching copy of LLVM and use it to build ObjWriter library. + +The following manual steps are useful for troubleshooting ObjWriter build issues. + 1. Clone LLVM from official LLVM mirror github git repository: ``` @@ -12,7 +20,7 @@ See [LLVM requirements](http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#requirements) f 2. Copy ObjWriter directory from CoreRT into LLVM tree ``` - cp -r CoreRT/src/Native/ObjWriter llvm/tools/ + cp -r corert/src/Native/ObjWriter llvm/tools/ ``` 3. Apply the patch to LLVM: |