[LLVMdev] Minor correction to the Visual Studio documentation/Windows support in general

Dirkjan Ochtman
Thu, 24 May 2012 11:29:07 -0000

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org>
wrote:
> One project I'd like to complete pretty soon is to go through the build
> instructions, for mingw32, and see if I can't somehow create a mingw64
> build.  I believe the 32-bit platform is dying by the hour so I'm
rather
> eager to have a mingw64 version of LLVM/Clang.  Also, I'd love to make
a
> .tool to automatically retrieve and build LLVM and Clang from the rather
> large set of 3rd party tools that are needed to build it.  Whether this is
> useful or not, I still don't know because I haven't been through
the actual
> process of building the mingw32 version of LLVM/Clang myself.  I was so
> fortunate that I discovered the Windows release in v3.1 and quickly grabbed
> it and tried it out.  And it seems to run very well so far.

The best thing you can probably do is setup a buildbot slave, so that
developers will actually become aware when their changes break
Windows.

Cheers,

Dirkjan