[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] [Patch] Build failure on Windows+MinGW (GCC and Clang)

Aaron Ballman
Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:24:58 -0000

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Ruben Van Boxem
<vanboxem.ruben at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're welcome! Please remember that MinGW-w64 does not mean it is
64-bit.
> It provides both 32- and 64-bit headers/libs. The "w64" in the
name was
> originally because that was the project's principal goal, among
extending
> the API completeness and compatibility with MSVC. Just so that I don't
find
> any MinGW-w64/.org 64-bit misconceptions in LLVM code later ;-) It's an
> understandable mistake (and the name doesn't help at all :-/)

You learn something new every day... I had no idea this existed (I've
always been a Visual Studio person, and rarely use MinGW of any
variety).  Now I know I've got something else to test next time.  :-)

~Aaron