llvm dev - Jun 2011 - [LLVMdev] llvm fails on MinGW-32 (Windows) because Python is not supported there

This page says that llvm works on MinGW: 
http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html
I tried to build llvm trunk. llvm build now requires Python:
llvm[2]: Creating 'llvm-lit' script...
/bin/sh: python: command not found

And current stable python version (3.2) doesn't even build on MinGW (see 
http://bugs.python.org/issue9098).

What is the solution on MinGW? Maybe Python was introduced into llvm 
later without thinking about MinGW?

I think llvm developers should setup an automated nightly build of llvm 
on all officially supported platforms, so that such failures of certain 
platforms will be visible on daily basis. With modern virtualization 
environments it should be possible to do this even on just one computer.

Yuri

Hi Yuri!

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Yuri  wrote:
> This page says that llvm works on MinGW:
> http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html
> I tried to build llvm trunk. llvm build now requires Python:
> llvm[2]: Creating 'llvm-lit' script...
> /bin/sh: python: command not found
>
> And current stable python version (3.2) doesn't even build on MinGW
(see
> http://bugs.python.org/issue9098).
>
> What is the solution on MinGW?
There are various precompiled Windows binaries for Python (yes, even
3.2), from http://www.python.org/download/ or
http://www.activestate.com/activepython-3

Hope this helps,
Csaba
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On 06/11/2011 09:32, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> There are various precompiled Windows binaries for Python (yes, even
> 3.2), from http://www.python.org/download/ or
> http://www.activestate.com/activepython-3
>    
Thanks!
I got msi based installer (3.2) from http://www.python.org/download/.
But llvm build now fails with this message:
  File "<string>", line 1
     import sys;print ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
                        ^


Syntax error: invalid syntax

Yuri