gllvm/examples/tutorial-ubuntu-16.04.md

Compiling Apache on Ubuntu

On a clean 16.04 server machine I will build apache. Desktop instructions should be no different.

>more /etc/lsb-release

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"

Step 0.

Install the go language.

>sudo apt-get install golang

Step 1.

Install gllvm.

>export GOPATH=/vagrant/go

>go get github.com/SRI-CSL/gllvm/cmd/...

>export PATH=${GOPATH}/bin:${PATH}

Step 2.

I am only going to build apache, not apr, so I first install the prerequisites.

>sudo apt-get install llvm libclang-dev clang libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev libpcre3-dev make

At this point, you could check your clang version with which clang and ls -l /usr/bin/clang. It should be at least clang-3.8.

Step 3.

Configure the gllvm tool to be relatively quiet:

>export WLLVM_OUTPUT_LEVEL=WARNING
>export WLLVM_OUTPUT_FILE=/vagrant/apache-build.log

Step 4.

Fetch apache, untar, configure, then build:

>wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.4.33.tar.gz

>tar xfz httpd-2.4.33.tar.gz

>cd httpd-2.4.33

>CC=gllvm ./configure

>make

Step 5.

Extract the bitcode.

>get-bc -m httpd

>ls -la httpd.bc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vagrant vagrant 1172844 May  8 22:39 httpd.bc

The -m flag instructs the get-bc tool to write a manifest too, the manifest lists all the bitcode modules that were linked together to create the httpd.bc module.

more httpd.bc.llvm.manifest

/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/.modules.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/.buildmark.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.main.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.vhost.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.mpm_common.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_filter.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_pcre.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.exports.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.scoreboard.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.error_bucket.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.protocol.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.core.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.request.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.provider.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.eoc_bucket.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.eor_bucket.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.core_filters.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_expr_eval.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.config.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.log.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_fcgi.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_script.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_md5.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_cfgtree.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_time.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.connection.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.listen.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_mutex.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.mpm_unix.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.mpm_fdqueue.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_cookies.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_debug.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_xml.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_regex.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_expr_parse.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/.util_expr_scan.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/modules/core/.mod_so.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/modules/http/.http_core.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/modules/http/.http_protocol.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/modules/http/.http_request.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/modules/http/.http_filters.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/modules/http/.chunk_filter.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/modules/http/.byterange_filter.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/modules/http/.http_etag.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/server/mpm/event/.event.o.bc
/home/vagrant/httpd-2.4.33/os/unix/.unixd.o.bc

Step 6.

Turn the bitcode into a second executable binary. (optional -- just for fun and sanity checking)

llc -filetype=obj httpd.bc
clang httpd.o  -Wl,--export-dynamic -lpthread -lapr-1 -laprutil-1 -lpcre -o httpd_from_bc

See here for an explanation of the

-Wl,--export-dynamic

incantation.```