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

Kevin Kelley
Thu, 24 May 2012 12:15:34 -0000

On 5/24/2012 5:53 AM, Mikael Lyngvig 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.
>
Mingw32 is pretty painless.  Mingw-w64 I think can work -- I ran thru it
last weekend
but had issues and couldn't complete (died on llvm-config.exe).  Was
able to get a
LLVM-3.1svn.dll for w64 that seemed to be okay.

Kevin