4.1. Initialization and finalization

These functions need only be called once per process invocation.

llvmlite.binding.initialize()

Initialize the LLVM core.

llvmlite.binding.initialize_native_target()

Initialize the native (host) target. Calling this function once is necessary before doing any code generation.

llvmlite.binding.initialize_native_asmprinter()

Initialize the native assembly printer.

llvmlite.binding.shutdown()

Shutdown the LLVM core.

llvmlite.binding.llvm_version_info

A three-integer tuple representing the LLVM version number, for example (3, 7, 1). Since LLVM is statically linked into the llvmlite DLL, this is guaranteed to represent the true LLVM version in use.