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I noticed that the mingw release only contains binaries and not
libraries nor header files.
I think it would be nice if the mingw release contained the same files
as the other releases.
This would mean that people who want to use LLVM with the Haskell
bindings on Windows don't have to build and install LLVM (first
installing mingw), but they could just download binaries and install
those.

  -- Lennart

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Anton Korobeynikov
<anton at korobeynikov.info> wrote:
> Hello, Tanya
>
>> 4) Mingw x86 (Anton do you want to continue this?)
> Yes, I'm still going to prepare llvm-gcc mingw32 images. However, the
> testing procedure for mingw is slightly different due to lack of
> dejagnu stuff. However, I have plans to fix the main LLVM testsuite to
> be more mingw32-friendly :)
>
> --
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University
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Hello,
> I noticed that the mingw release only contains binaries and not
> libraries nor header files.
That's correct, because headers will contain, for example, absolute
paths from the box I've built the libraries on (mostly in config.h and
llvm-config script). I won't provide neither libraries nor headers,
since I don't know how to make them 'path-neutral' without much hand
work.
> This would mean that people who want to use LLVM with the Haskell
> bindings on Windows don't have to build and install LLVM (first
> installing mingw), but they could just download binaries and install
> those.
I don't understand. If you want to use libraries / headers - then you
will need a compiler anyway. Why not spent few dozens minutes to build
LLVM?

-- 
With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University

Hi,

You don't need to install a C compiler to use LLVM from Haskell.
The ghc Haskell compiler comes with all the necessary bits to build
binaries (which happens to include a (hidden) GNU tool chain).
The header files are barely needed at all, just the include/llvm-c/*.h
files to pick up some enum values.  config.h and llvm-config are not
used at all.
The .a files are needed to link everything together.

If llvm.org is not going to put up header and library files then I'll
put them somewhere myself so as to make installation smooth for
Haskell users on Windows.

  -- Lennart


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Anton Korobeynikov
<anton at korobeynikov.info> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> I noticed that the mingw release only contains binaries and not
>> libraries nor header files.
> That's correct, because headers will contain, for example, absolute
> paths from the box I've built the libraries on (mostly in config.h and
> llvm-config script). I won't provide neither libraries nor headers,
> since I don't know how to make them 'path-neutral' without much
hand
> work.
>
>> This would mean that people who want to use LLVM with the Haskell
>> bindings on Windows don't have to build and install LLVM (first
>> installing mingw), but they could just download binaries and install
>> those.
> I don't understand. If you want to use libraries / headers - then you
> will need a compiler anyway. Why not spent few dozens minutes to build
> LLVM?
>
> --
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University
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