How to make llvm jit work in MSVC++

Question

It appears that Kaleidoscope example in LLVM has been broken, at least in MSVC++ x64 for a quite while, maybe several months. It doesn\'t work in MCJIT and in their new Orc

Answer 1

Lang Hames from the llvm mailing list was able to answer this question. It appears that method COFFObjectFile::getSymbolFlags doesn't enable SF_Export flag at all, thus making all created symbols invisible for the Kaleidoscope's findSymbol method in the Windows platform. It is possible to get access to non-exported symbols though, so some kind of workaround is possible.