llvm dev - Sep 2015 - compiler-rt builtins on MSVC

Hi,

compiler-rt builtins currently doesn't build on MSVC; it's ignored in
the CMakeLists and if you force it to build MSVC explodes because it
uses syntax not supported by MSVC.

What is one supposed to use when building LLVM as a library for a
compiler on MSVC in order to satisfy imports like __powidf2 etc? What
does Clang do?

(Context: I'm trying to build Rust on MSVC without using MinGW at all.
Currently what Rust does is build the rest of LLVM and the Rust's C
bits itself with MSVC but use gcc to create libcompiler-rt for
builtins.. which is horribly hacky, though it works quite well thanks
to MinGW.)

Thanks.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Hao Wei via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> compiler-rt builtins currently doesn't build on MSVC; it's ignored
in
> the CMakeLists and if you force it to build MSVC explodes because it
> uses syntax not supported by MSVC.
>
> What is one supposed to use when building LLVM as a library for a
> compiler on MSVC in order to satisfy imports like __powidf2 etc? What
> does Clang do?
>
Clang targeting windows-msvc expects to link against the VC++ runtime.
It might be reasonable to extend compiler-rt to add support for these
compiler intrinsics.

>
> (Context: I'm trying to build Rust on MSVC without using MinGW at all.
> Currently what Rust does is build the rest of LLVM and the Rust's C
> bits itself with MSVC but use gcc to create libcompiler-rt for
> builtins.. which is horribly hacky, though it works quite well thanks
> to MinGW.)
>
> Thanks.
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