[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

Óscar Fuentes
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:01:22 -0000

"Jonathan Brumley" <jbrumley at gmail.com> writes:

> 2 more roadblocks for Visual Studio users are the inability to compile gcc
> and the inability to compile and run the test suite.  I would not want to
> submit a change unless I could still compile/run gcc and pass the test
> suite.  (Testing before submission is the way we do it where I come from -
I
> am assuming it's the same here).

Completely agreed.

However, for VC++, I'm not thinking on LLVM contributors, but on LLVM
users.

> On a related note, has anyone gotten the LLVM test suite working on
> MinGW?  I am in the process of trying to get LLVM working on my
> Windows box.  I expect I can get the test suite working on Cygwin -
> but I'm not sure about MinGW.

People run the GCC test suite on MinGW and, IIRC, LLVM uses the same
framework, so it should be doable.

--
Oscar