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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 08d253afc8e..f5567748de7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ Prerequisites: * ActiveState Active Perl * MinGW with g++ 4.8 or Visual Studio 2015 or later * jom + + The optional Clang code model requires LLVM. A manual build of it requires in addition: + * cmake * On Mac OS X: latest Xcode * On Linux: g++ 4.8 or later * LLVM 3.8.0 or later (optional, needed for the Clang Code Model) @@ -118,9 +121,32 @@ For detailed information on the supported compilers, see command...` error. If a `sh.exe` is found, the compile process will fail. You have to remove it from the path. - 10. To enable the Clang-based code model: Install Clang (>= version 3.8.0) - and set the environment variable LLVM_INSTALL_DIR to point to the + 10. As of Qt Creator 4.2, a complete build of LLVM and Clang is required + to enable the Clang-based code model (recommmended: 3.9). For 32bit, + a pre-built package can be downloaded from: + https://download.qt.io/development_releases/prebuilt/libclang/. + The environment variable LLVM_INSTALL_DIR needs to be set to point to the installation location. + It is also possible to build Clang manually, roughly following the + instructions at http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#git-mirror . + * Clone LLVM + git clone http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git + * Switch to a suitable branch, for example, release_39 + cd llvm + git checkout -b release_39 + * Clone Clang under llvm\tools + cd tools + git clone http://llvm.org/git/clang.git + * Switch Clang to a suitable branch + cd clang + git checkout -b release_39 + * Create a shadow build directory and build + cd ..\..\.. + mkdir build + cd build + cmake -G "NMake Makefiles JOM" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<installation location> -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI=ON ..\llvm + jom install + 11. You are now ready to configure and build Qt and Qt Creator. Please see <https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git> for |