<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Justin Holewinski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin.holewinski@gmail.com" target="_blank">justin.holewinski@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>> Coverage of building clang with msvc11 will probably decline sharply when it hits the market as setting up a build will require buying a license<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Is this more of a legal or technical issue? Right now, you can get a C++ toolchain from the "free" tools by installing Visual Studio 2012 Express and then the Windows 8 SDK. Both of these will presumably be free for RTM. I just built LLVM with this combination.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Win 8 SDK even states "<span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px">You can use the Windows SDK, along with your chosen development environment, to write Windows Metro style apps [...]; <i><b>desktop applications that use the native (Win32/COM) programming model; ..."</b></i></span></div>
</blockquote></div><br><div>Folks, I'm going to suggest that we not hold this discussion on this mailing list.</div><div><br></div><div>The tech press has covered the issue thoroughly (if not necessarily well), but I suspect that none of the Microsoft engineers you might run into on this list will be able to clarify things, any more than I can comment about Google products, or Apple folks can comment about Apple products.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let's get back to compiler warnings and building Clang/LLVM. Those are the interesting bits. =]</div>