[cfe-dev] [libcxx] build system questions

[Howard Hinnant]

On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Michael Spencer wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Howard Hinnant <hhinnant at apple.com> wrote:
>> I think we should start out with a simple question:  What problem are we attempting to solve?
>> 
>> -Howard
> 
> If we want Windows support (which I do :P), CMake is the way to go.
> I'm willing to do it, targeting POSIX-like platforms for now, as doing
> a Windows port is a much larger project. It's also possible to do it
> without requiring explicit source lists, even though there aren't that
> many to begin with.

Windows support seems motivating to me.  The build system will probably be the easy part.  locale support will be more challenging.  Another challenging part may be the low-level stuff such as type_info and exception_ptr.

-Howard