Compiler fascinate me, since I learned to program. Because of that, I wanted to build a compiler myself one day. When I learned about LLVM, I realised this was the perfect chance and I started according to this tutorial.

The project is ordered approximately like any cpp project is, with a src and a include folder

CMake is used as a build system. Note that in order to use the LLVM libraries, I compiled them from source like seen here and here. Once LLVM is compiled from source, cmake can be used on the CmakeLists.txt file. From within root folder, best practice is:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..

For development, I use vscode with the C++ and CMake extensions installed. If you don't have the clang compiler installed, you are free to use gcc aswell, although clang is recommended by llvm.