<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't know where Paul Bristow's comments are coming from ( I don't see them in this mailing list recently anywhere ) but he has recently attempted to get clang on Windows targeting gcc working and has gotten help for it on the Boost developers mailing list.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>He replied only to my email and didn't include cfe-dev.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I still don't know why users of clang are expected to step up to get these issues addressed. Don't clang developers consider this an issue of any importance ? Last I heard Windows was still be used vastly more than Linux and/or Mac combined in the world. I also use Linux and have no prejudices against it, but like many developers find Windows more developer friendly overall.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>I'm starting to repeat myself, there's no "clang developers" in the sense you understand. There's people employed by companies and paid to work on stuff those companies find important. Chromium team cares about Windows support the most and as far as I know they're the main contributors for VC++ ABI stuff. The open source community (clang developers) would love to have Clang working seamlessly on Windows but haven't had the time to address it. There needs to be someone to drive this effort and we don't really have that someone right now. So whoever finds these issues important can either step up or wait for someone else to get this done, when and if they get to it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Unlike Paul I do understand why clang uses gcc's headers and RTL ( aka libstdc++ ). What I have always failed to understand is why, this being the case, clang has so little documentation on the relationship of any particular clang release to the particular underlying gcc releases with which clang can work. Similarly, as I understand it, clang can use libc++ instead of libstdc++. But again under Windows there is no documentation on how this may be done. In general the porting of clang to Windows, while working fine if everything is setup correctly, seems like almost an afterthought for clang developers.</blockquote><div> </div><div>We went through this documentation issue in the other thread. As for libc++ on Windows, it's not much different from anything else, it's not officially supported because nobody cared enough to get it working. There's been a few efforts, you can search the mailing list, I don't know the exact details, I think someone recently asked about it.</div></div></div></div>