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

Csaba Raduly
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:32:34 -0000

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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