set LLVMPY_DYNLINK=1, if you want to link _core.so dynamically to libLLVM.so

setup.py

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ from distutils.core import setup, Extension
 LLVM_PY_VERSION = '0.8.2'
 
 llvm_config = os.environ.get('LLVM_CONFIG_PATH', 'llvm-config')
+# set LLVMPY_DYNLINK=1, if you want to link _core.so dynamically to libLLVM.so
+dynlink = int(os.environ.get('LLVMPY_DYNLINK', 0))
 
 def run_llvm_config(args):
     cmd = llvm_config + ' ' + ' '.join(args)
@@ -86,22 +88,25 @@ print('LLVM version = %d.%d' % llvm_version)
 
 auto_intrinsic_gen(incdir)
 
-if llvm_version <= (3, 1): # select between PTX & NVPTX
+if dynlink:
+    libs_core = ['LLVM-%d.%d' % llvm_version]
+    objs_core = []
+else:
+    if llvm_version <= (3, 1): # select between PTX & NVPTX
         print('Using PTX')
         ptx_components = ['ptx',
                           'ptxasmprinter',
                           'ptxcodegen',
                           'ptxdesc',
                           'ptxinfo']
-else:
+    else:
         print('Using NVPTX')
         ptx_components = ['nvptx',
                           'nvptxasmprinter',
                           'nvptxcodegen',
                           'nvptxdesc',
                           'nvptxinfo']
-
+    libs_core, objs_core = get_libs_and_objs(
-libs_core, objs_core = get_libs_and_objs(
         ['core', 'analysis', 'scalaropts', 'executionengine',
          'jit',  'native', 'interpreter', 'bitreader', 'bitwriter',
          'instrumentation', 'ipa', 'ipo', 'transformutils',