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...s to set up a project to depend on LLVM. Probably the most robust is how the Rust language <https://github.com/mozilla/rust> does it, which is to set up a git submodule which is pinned on a particular git commit; the revision that it is pinned on is actually for a fork <https://github.com/brson/llvm> of LLVM's main development which the Rust developers have made specifically for this purpose. I don't really track Rust, but from a quick browse, it looks like what they are doing is to periodically sync with upstream or cherry-pick specific bugfixes; they also put in some little f...

Hi, I have several times over the past three months tried to retrieve the trunk version of LLVM/Clang/Compiler-RT from Subversion and then tried to build it on Windows: Without success. Also, I occasionally get emails from people who ask me why LLVM/Windows does not build (they find my name in the mailing list archive). This has made me ponder the issue and I came up with the following scheme

...nd on LLVM. > > Probably the most robust is how the Rust language > <https://github.com/mozilla/rust> does it, which is to set up a git > submodule which is pinned on a particular git commit; the revision > that it is pinned on is actually for a fork > <https://github.com/brson/llvm> of LLVM's main development which the > Rust developers have made specifically for this purpose. I don't > really track Rust, but from a quick browse, it looks like what they > are doing is to periodically sync with upstream or cherry-pick > specific bugfixes; they also...