[LLVMdev] RFC: LLVM should require a working C++11 , , and

Óscar Fuentes
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:30:49 -0000

"writeonce at midipix.org"
<writeonce at midipix.org> writes:

> One important point you seem to be missing is the ability to
> cross-compile API/CRT software on Windows with a clang.exe which does
> not depend on msvcrt.exe.

Why we would want to do that? (Moreover, considering that LLVM/Clang is
expected to work with MSVC++ which, obviously, depends on msvcrt as
MinGW does.)

>  From a technical perspective (and also with
> respect to many of its goals), the project differs from Cygwin in
> virtually every possible way (some key differences, as well as the
> distinction between mingw as a target and a libc++ _for_ mingw, can be
> found in my original message).

Let's see. Suppossing a LLVM/libClang that uses that libc on Windows, my
software that links to LLVM/libClang must use libc too, right?