llvm dev - Dec 2009 - [LLVMdev] LLVM MinGW binaries on Vista issue

I'm attempting to use the above as described here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1816469/llvm-mingw-installation-on-vista

...and getting the following error when attempting "llvm-gcc -o hello.exe
hello.c"

llvm-gcc: CreateProcess: No such file or directory


I've heard it may be due to the way GCC is passing args to CreateProcess as
in this thread

http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/mingw-users/1/7113.html
http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/mingw-users/1/7180.html

Is this the cause or is there something else I need to due with the LLVM
binaries?

Jon

> I'm attempting to use the above as described here
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1816469/llvm-mingw-installation-on-vista
> 
> ...and getting the following error when attempting "llvm-gcc -o
hello.exe hello.c"
> 
> llvm-gcc: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> I've heard it may be due to the way GCC is passing args to
CreateProcess as in this thread
> 
> http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/mingw-users/1/7113.html
> http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/mingw-users/1/7180.html
> 
> Is this the cause or is there something else I need to due with the LLVM
binaries?
>
Is there a more appropriate forum for getting this type of question answered?

Jon

Hello
> Is this the cause or is there something else I need to due with the LLVM
binaries?
Yes, this might be a possible issue. I'm not sure whether apple's gcc
4.2 (which llvm-gcc 4.2 is based originally on) has that vista
workaround patches.

Unfortunately, I don't have vista box around to check / debug this issue.

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

> > Is this the cause or is there something else I need to due with the
LLVM binaries?
>
> Yes, this might be a possible issue. I'm not sure whether apple's
gcc
> 4.2 (which llvm-gcc 4.2 is based originally on) has that vista
> workaround patches.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have vista box around to check / debug this
issue.

What's the next step given that, as much as I'd like to, I can't
send you a vista box?

I'm feeling the patch-the-sources-and-try-compiling-it-yourself answer
(which I had hoped to avoid) coming on ;)

Any way to get this added to the 2.7 mingw binary release TODO list for proper
confirmation/fixing by the LLVM experts?

Thanks, Jon

> I'm attempting to use the above as described here
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1816469/llvm-mingw-installation-on-vista
> 
> ...and getting the following error when attempting "llvm-gcc -o
hello.exe hello.c"
> 
> llvm-gcc: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
I also get the same issue when trying to run the LLVM MinGW binaries on an XP
box, which indicates I'm doing something fundamentally wrong as binaries
have been offered all the way back to LLVM 1.8.

Is anyone successfully running the 2.6 binaries as-is on any windows box?

Is the expectation that the install dance for windows should be similar to
installing the binaries from http://mingw.org/ or
http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/

If someone is successfully running these binaries, I'd appreciate a link or
quick summary, and I'll volunteer to submit a doco patch for the Getting
Started Guide for this issue.

Jon

Hello
> Is anyone successfully running the 2.6 binaries as-is on any windows box?
Yes. They are running successfully since LLVM 1.8 as-is. The usual test
for mingw binaries includes e.g. Qt compilation via llvm-gcc.

-- 
With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov.

Faculty of Mathematics & Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University.