This PR continues the work of https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/171775 by moving more useful types/attributes into MLIRPythonSupport. You can now do ```c++ struct PyTestIntegerRankedTensorType : mlir::python::MLIR_BINDINGS_PYTHON_DOMAIN::PyConcreteType< PyTestIntegerRankedTensorType, mlir::python::MLIR_BINDINGS_PYTHON_DOMAIN::PyRankedTensorType> struct PyTestTensorValue : mlir::python::MLIR_BINDINGS_PYTHON_DOMAIN::PyConcreteValue< PyTestTensorValue> ``` instead of `mlir_type_subclass` and `mlir_value_subclass`; **specifically manual registration of the "value caster" via indirection through the Python interpreter is no longer necessary** . You can also now freely use all such types at the nanobind API level (e.g., overload based on `FP*`): ```c++ using mlir::python::MLIR_BINDINGS_PYTHON_DOMAIN; standaloneM.def("print_fp_type", [](PyF16Type &) { nb::print("this is a fp16 type"); }); standaloneM.def("print_fp_type", [](PyF32Type &) { nb::print("this is a fp32 type"); }); standaloneM.def("print_fp_type", [](PyF64Type &) { nb::print("this is a fp64 type"); }); ``` Note, here we only port `PythonTestModuleNanobind` but there is a follow-up PR that ports **all** in-tree dialect extensions https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/174156 to use these. After that one we can soft deprecate `mlir_pure_subclass`. Note, depends on https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/171775
An out-of-tree MLIR dialect
This is an example of an out-of-tree MLIR dialect along with a standalone opt-like tool to operate on that dialect.
Building - Component Build
This setup assumes that you have built LLVM and MLIR in $BUILD_DIR and installed them to $PREFIX. To build and launch the tests, run
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G Ninja .. -DMLIR_DIR=$PREFIX/lib/cmake/mlir -DLLVM_EXTERNAL_LIT=$BUILD_DIR/bin/llvm-lit
cmake --build . --target check-standalone
To build the documentation from the TableGen description of the dialect operations, run
cmake --build . --target mlir-doc
Note: Make sure to pass -DLLVM_INSTALL_UTILS=ON when building LLVM with CMake in order to install FileCheck to the chosen installation prefix.
Building - Monolithic Build
This setup assumes that you build the project as part of a monolithic LLVM build via the LLVM_EXTERNAL_PROJECTS mechanism.
To build LLVM, MLIR, the example and launch the tests run
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G Ninja `$LLVM_SRC_DIR/llvm` \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=host \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS=mlir \
-DLLVM_EXTERNAL_PROJECTS=standalone-dialect -DLLVM_EXTERNAL_STANDALONE_DIALECT_SOURCE_DIR=../
cmake --build . --target check-standalone
Here, $LLVM_SRC_DIR needs to point to the root of the monorepo.