[cfe-dev] Building clang outside of LLVM (with CMake)

[Francois Pichet]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Some time ago Doug mentioned that it would be useful to build clang
> outside of LLVM: basically LLVM acts as an external library which is
> used by clang.
>
> Just to be sure that I'm working on the right track, what's the
> motivation for this requirement?

For example, my long term primary motivation in joining the clang
project is to bring the static analyzer to work inside Visual Studio
via a plugin. For such plugin any codegen/llvm libraries are not
useful and not needed.

is that what you mean?