From e28cbb2efac9ed6e56cd9ab6eb1a3f16810d575a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: _ov4 <ov4@ov4.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:54:49 +0000
Subject: feat: embed a statically linked LLVM execution engine

Add EMBEDDED mode to run generated modules in-process without lli or PATH
lookup. Link LLVM and support archives plus the C++ runtime statically,
while retaining the system C runtime on Linux.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 tools/driver/EmbeddedRunner.cc | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tools/driver/EmbeddedRunner.cc

(limited to 'tools/driver/EmbeddedRunner.cc')

diff --git a/tools/driver/EmbeddedRunner.cc b/tools/driver/EmbeddedRunner.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81a2265
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/driver/EmbeddedRunner.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#include "EmbeddedRunner.h"
+#include "cps/CodeGen.h"
+#include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h"
+#include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/MCJIT.h"
+#include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/SectionMemoryManager.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/DynamicLibrary.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/TargetSelect.h"
+#include "llvm/TargetParser/Host.h"
+#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/Cloning.h"
+
+int runEmbedded(const cps::CodeGen &CG) {
+    if (llvm::InitializeNativeTarget() || llvm::InitializeNativeTargetAsmPrinter()) {
+        llvm::errs() << "Error: cannot initialize the embedded LLVM target\n";
+        return 1;
+    }
+    std::string Error;
+    if (llvm::sys::DynamicLibrary::LoadLibraryPermanently(nullptr, &Error)) {
+        llvm::errs() << "Error: cannot load process symbols: " << Error << "\n";
+        return 1;
+    }
+    // Keep CodeGen's module and context alive while the engine owns its clone.
+    auto Module = llvm::CloneModule(CG.getModule());
+    Module->setTargetTriple(llvm::sys::getProcessTriple());
+    llvm::EngineBuilder Builder(std::move(Module));
+    Builder.setEngineKind(llvm::EngineKind::JIT);
+    Builder.setErrorStr(&Error);
+    Builder.setMCJITMemoryManager(std::make_unique<llvm::SectionMemoryManager>());
+    std::unique_ptr<llvm::ExecutionEngine> Engine(Builder.create());
+    if (!Engine) {
+        llvm::errs() << "Error: cannot create the embedded LLVM engine: " << Error << "\n";
+        return 1;
+    }
+    Engine->finalizeObject();
+    if (Engine->hasError()) {
+        llvm::errs() << "Error: embedded LLVM execution failed: " << Engine->getErrorMessage() << "\n";
+        return 1;
+    }
+    auto MainAddress = Engine->getFunctionAddress("main");
+    if (!MainAddress) {
+        llvm::errs() << "Error: embedded LLVM could not resolve main\n";
+        return 1;
+    }
+    auto Main = reinterpret_cast<int (*)()>(MainAddress);
+    return Main();
+}
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