Update#3

Still waiting for official LLVM8 release but it was already tagged.
Meanwhile code was migrate to LLVM8 and commited to dkimitsa/robovm/llvm_80. Following was adapted:

• bindings;
• native code;
• patches.

Code under LLVM8 branch can compile and produce runnable code.
Also both LLVM7/8 has been merged with debugger_local_resolution branch;

Next steps:

• resurect and run RoboVm tests;
• evaluate performance and size footprint of LLVM7 produced code;

Previous updates:

Update#2 – its alive
Code from dkimitsa/robovm/llvm_70 is able compile and start application in simulator/device. It gets alive status. What had been done:

• RoboVm compiler infrastructure was updated to produce llvm 7 compatible IR code;
• DebugInformationPlugin was reworked to produce llvm7 debug information;
• Bunch of code was changed as it was broken as per llvm7 vision and produced crashes on asserts inside LLVM.

Update#1 - kickoff

• LLVM and Clang mirror repos are used as source base;
• CMake build files updated to compile version 7;
• Swig files for java bindings were cleaned up initially to produce clean results without need of post-work-arounds;
• LLMV Extra code – set of helpers and wrappers used by RoboVM were updated to work with new LLVM;
• Swift files for bindings were updated to produce v7 wrappers;
• RoboVM compiler’s code were updated as LLVM API was changed and lot of functionality was deprecated.