You can download stable releases from http://llvm.org/releases/ http://llvm.org/releases/ - it has binaries for some common platforms. A stable release is made

You can download stable releases from http://llvm.org/releases/ http://llvm.org/releases/ - it has binaries for some common platforms. A stable release is made once in 6 months on average. But to be on bleeding edge, yes, you update from SVN. It isn't hard, but you better have a beefy machine to build&link all of it in reasonable time. This page summarizes it nicely: http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html