IL2BC - Compiling C#/MSIL to Native Code using LLVM.

What is IL2BC

IL2BC allows you to use C# instead of C++ to compile native cross-platform applications. Additionally IL2BC can convert any MSIL DLL into LLVM IR.

What IL2BC is not

IL2BC is not providing .NET Framework functionality

QUICK START

Hello World (C# code)

using System;

class X {
	public static int Main (string [] args)
	{
		Console.WriteLine ("Hello, World!");
		return 0;
	}
}

Step 1) Generating LLVM IR file

Il2Bc.exe helloworld.cs /corelib:CoreLib.dll
Il2Bc.exe CoreLib.dll

It will generate 2 files helloworld.ll and CoreLib.ll

Step 2) Compiling executable file

llc -filetype=obj -mtriple=i686-w64-mingw32 CoreLib.ll
llc -filetype=obj -mtriple=i686-w64-mingw32 helloworld.ll
g++ -o helloworld.exe helloworld.obj CoreLib.obj -lstdc++ -lgc-lib -march=i686 -L .

It will generate exe file helloworld.exe which can be executed

PS. To Compile EXE file you need to have LLVM 3.6 and GCC MinGW which you can download from the following links

Binaries

LLVM 3.6 and GCC MinGW

PS2. You can download binaries from the site [http://csnative.codeplex.com/] http://csnative.codeplex.com/