I don't think gollvm is much maintained.
Big picture, what is your aim? If you don't need standard library style
network support,
perhaps https://tinygo.org/ could be helpful? It is built on LLVM, targets
embedded systems,
and has folks actively working with it.
On Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 6:28:40 PM UTC-3 Qi Ling wrote:
> Hi! I failed to build gollvm following the instructions. Which LLVM
> version should I use? Thank you in advance!
>
> Right now I'm using the LLVM main branch (6f253e87). Below is the build
> error:
> [444/4666] Building CXX object
> tools/gollvm/passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMCppGoPasses.dir/GoStatepoints.cpp.o
> FAILED:
> tools/gollvm/passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMCppGoPasses.dir/GoStatepoints.cpp.o
> /usr/bin/c++ -D_DEBUG -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
> -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
> -I/home/qiling/llvm-project/build-debug/tools/gollvm/passes
> -I/home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes
> -I/home/qiling/llvm-project/build-debug/include
> -I/home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include
> -I/home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/driver -fPIC
> -fno-semantic-interposition -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Werror=date-time
> -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual
> -Wno-missing-field-initializers -pedantic -Wno-long-long
> -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-uninitialized -Wno-nonnull -Wno-class-memaccess
> -Wno-dangling-reference -Wno-redundant-move -Wno-pessimizing-move
> -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-stringop-overread -Wno-noexcept-type
> -Wdelete-non-virtual-dtor -Wsuggest-override -Wno-comment
> -Wno-misleading-indentation -Wctad-maybe-unsupported -fdiagnostics-color -g
> -std=c++17 -Wno-suggest-override -fcf-protection=none -fno-exceptions
> -funwind-tables -fno-rtti -MD -MT
> tools/gollvm/passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMCppGoPasses.dir/GoStatepoints.cpp.o -MF
> tools/gollvm/passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMCppGoPasses.dir/GoStatepoints.cpp.o.d -o
> tools/gollvm/passes/CMakeFiles/LLVMCppGoPasses.dir/GoStatepoints.cpp.o -c
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp: In
> function ‘void zeroAmbiguouslyLiveSlots(llvm::Function&,
> llvm::SetVector<llvm::Value*>&, llvm::SetVector<llvm::Value*>&)’:
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp:1772:36:
> error: no matching function for call to
> ‘llvm::IRBuilder<>::CreateLifetimeStart(llvm::Instruction*,
> llvm::ConstantInt*)’
> 1772 | Builder.CreateLifetimeStart(&I, ConstantInt::get(Int64Ty,
> Size));
> |
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp:44:
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h:814:22: note:
> candidate: ‘llvm::CallInst*
> llvm::IRBuilderBase::CreateLifetimeStart(llvm::Value*)’
> 814 | LLVM_ABI CallInst *CreateLifetimeStart(Value *Ptr);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h:814:22: note:
> candidate expects 1 argument, 2 provided
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp: In
> member function ‘bool llvm::GoStatepoints::runOnFunction(llvm::Function&,
> llvm::DominatorTree&, llvm::TargetTransformInfo&, const
> llvm::TargetLibraryInfo&)’:
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp:2278:25:
> warning: ‘void llvm::Instruction::moveBefore(llvm::Instruction*)’ is
> deprecated: Use iterators as instruction positions
> [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
> 2278 | Cond->moveBefore(TI);
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
> In file included from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/IR/DebugProgramInstruction.h:55,
> from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/IR/BasicBlock.h:23,
> from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Dominators.h:26,
> from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/Analysis/DomTreeUpdater.h:18,
> from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp:31:
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/IR/Instruction.h:246:37: note:
> declared here
> 246 | "") void moveBefore(Instruction
> *MovePos);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp: In
> function ‘void fixStackWriteBarriers(llvm::Function&,
> {anonymous}::DefiningValueMapTy&)’:
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp:3006:55:
> warning: ‘static llvm::PointerType* llvm::PointerType::get(llvm::Type*,
> unsigned int)’ is deprecated: PointerType::get with pointee type is pending
> removal. Use Context overload. [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
> 3006 |
> PointerType::get(Val->getType(), AS));
> |
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/IR/DataLayout.h:28,
> from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/RemoveAddrSpace.h:18,
> from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GollvmPasses.h:16,
> from
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/tools/gollvm/passes/GoStatepoints.cpp:18:
> /home/qiling/llvm-project/llvm/include/llvm/IR/DerivedTypes.h:713:32:
> note: declared here
> 713 | LLVM_ABI static PointerType *get(Type *ElementType, unsigned
> AddressSpace);
> | ^~~
>
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