Index: CMakeLists.txt
===================================================================
--- CMakeLists.txt
+++ CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,50 @@
+# Check if lld is built as a standalone project.
+if(CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR)
+  project(lld)
+  cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.4.3)
+
+  set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR ON)
+  set(LLD_BUILT_STANDALONE TRUE)
+
+  find_program(LLVM_CONFIG_PATH "llvm-config" DOC "Path to llvm-config binary")
+  if(NOT LLVM_CONFIG_PATH)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "llvm-config not found: specify LLVM_CONFIG_PATH")
+  endif()
+
+  execute_process(COMMAND "${LLVM_CONFIG_PATH}" "--obj-root"
+                  RESULT_VARIABLE HAD_ERROR
+                  OUTPUT_VARIABLE LLVM_CONFIG_OUTPUT
+                  OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+  if(HAD_ERROR)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "llvm-config failed with status ${HAD_ERROR}")
+  endif()
+
+  string(REGEX REPLACE "[ \t]*[\r\n]+[ \t]*" ";" LLVM_CONFIG_OUTPUT ${LLVM_CONFIG_OUTPUT})
+  list(GET LLVM_CONFIG_OUTPUT 0 OBJ_ROOT)
+
+  set(LLVM_OBJ_ROOT ${OBJ_ROOT} CACHE PATH "path to LLVM build tree")
+
+  file(TO_CMAKE_PATH ${LLVM_OBJ_ROOT} LLVM_BINARY_DIR)
+  set(LLVM_CMAKE_PATH "${LLVM_BINARY_DIR}/lib${LLVM_LIBDIR_SUFFIX}/cmake/llvm")
+
+  if(NOT EXISTS "${LLVM_CMAKE_PATH}/LLVMConfig.cmake")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "LLVMConfig.cmake not found")
+  endif()
+  include("${LLVM_CMAKE_PATH}/LLVMConfig.cmake")
+
+  set(PACKAGE_VERSION "${LLVM_PACKAGE_VERSION}")
+  include_directories("${LLVM_BINARY_DIR}/include" ${LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+  link_directories(${LLVM_LIBRARY_DIRS})
+
+  list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${LLVM_CMAKE_PATH}")
+
+  include(AddLLVM)
+  include(TableGen)
+
+  set(LLVM_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_INTDIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/bin)
+  find_program(LLVM_TABLEGEN_EXE "llvm-tblgen" ${LLVM_TOOLS_BINARY_DIR} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+endif()
+
 set(LLD_SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
 set(LLD_INCLUDE_DIR ${LLD_SOURCE_DIR}/include )
 set(LLD_BINARY_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
Index: COFF/CMakeLists.txt
===================================================================
--- COFF/CMakeLists.txt
+++ COFF/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 tablegen(LLVM Options.inc -gen-opt-parser-defs)
 add_public_tablegen_target(COFFOptionsTableGen)
 
+if(NOT LLD_BUILT_STANDALONE)
+  set(tablegen_deps intrinsics_gen)
+endif()
+
 add_lld_library(lldCOFF
   Chunks.cpp
   DLL.cpp
@@ -39,5 +43,5 @@
 
   DEPENDS
   COFFOptionsTableGen
-  intrinsics_gen
+  ${tablegen_deps}
   )
Index: ELF/CMakeLists.txt
===================================================================
--- ELF/CMakeLists.txt
+++ ELF/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 tablegen(LLVM Options.inc -gen-opt-parser-defs)
 add_public_tablegen_target(ELFOptionsTableGen)
 
+if(NOT LLD_BUILT_STANDALONE)
+  set(tablegen_deps intrinsics_gen)
+endif()
+
 add_lld_library(lldELF
   Driver.cpp
   DriverUtils.cpp
@@ -54,5 +58,5 @@
 
   DEPENDS
   ELFOptionsTableGen
-  intrinsics_gen
+  ${tablegen_deps}
   )