[LLVMdev] Re: Building CFE on MinGW

Oscar Fuentes
Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:17:11 -0000

Greg Pettyjohn <gregp at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> I've blown a couple of weekends trying to build under MinGW.
>
> I can build the llvm tools with only a couple of minor hassles, but
can't
> seem to make any headway with the C Front End
>
> Most errors I run into involve not being able to find header files.
> The most frustrating part is that the error messages report that the file
> can't be found, and then proceed to give a path to where the file
actually
> is located.

This sounds like the problems people face when building a regular FSF
gcc release under MinGW. There was some discussion about this topic
recently on MinGW user's mailing list. Some workarounds were found,
using absolute paths on the config scripts, IIRC.

[snip]

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Oscar