docs: Add better documentation of the LLVM dependency

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Dylan Baker 7 years ago
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      docs/markdown/Dependencies.md

@ -197,3 +197,32 @@ tools support. You can force one or another via the method keyword:
```meson
wmf_dep = dependency('wmf', method : 'config-tool')
```
## LLVM
Meson has native support for LLVM going back to version LLVM version 3.5.
It supports a few additional features compared to other config-tool based
dependencies.
As of 0.44.0 Meson supports the `static` keyword argument for LLVM. Before this
LLVM >= 3.9 would always dynamically link, while older versions would
statically link, due to a quirk in `llvm-config`.
### Modules, a.k.a. Components
Meson wraps LLVM's concept of components in it's own modules concept.
When you need specific components you add them as modules as meson will do the
right thing:
```meson
llvm_dep = dependency('llvm', version : '>= 4.0', modules : ['amdgpu'])
```
As of 0.44.0 it can also take optional modules (these will affect the arguments
generated for a static link):
```meson
llvm_dep = dependency(
'llvm', version : '>= 4.0', modules : ['amdgpu'], optional_modules : ['inteljitevents'],
)
```

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