<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 2, 2018, at 4:09 PM, degski via cfe-dev <<a href="mailto:cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I do get the bulk delivery (in which, I saw somebody who responded), so <br class=""></div><div class="">iI'm just writing a new email (with same subject), from scratch (and hope for the best).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">>
I suspect the issue is going to be that no one has been effected enough
by this issue to be motivated to fix it. However, I know that any patch
contributed to fix this would be welcomed favorably.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a bit of the chicken and the egg problem. But if you look on GH, <a href="https://github.com/search?q=VS2017 LLVM&type=Everything&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1" class="">https://github.com/search?q=VS2017%20LLVM&type=Everything&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1</a>, you'll see that with one simple search there are already 3 projects trying to deal with this issue. As long as nobody makes it work, vs-users will have a possibly too big hurdle to pass. I personally don't have a problem, until LLVM 8, it'll keep working, and then it's a matter of changing 7 to 8 in a few files, that's not where the problem lies.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I don't see how that makes this a chicken-and-egg problem. Fixing the support for this integration in Clang is not blocked on anything except somebody writing the code to fix it. The vast majority of people working on this project are compiler developers and don't know anything about Windows installers or VS toolchain integration, so they have no idea how to go about fixing this. If you do know something about those things, I think contributing a fix is probably a better use of your time than hectoring everybody else until they write it for you.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>John.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another issue is f.e. that currently it is not possible to use lld (to take advantage of thin-lto) from the IDE. I'm reasonably confident MS is willing to cooperate to make that possible. So, this is a blocking issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">degski<br class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><i class=""><b class="">"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" - Herbert Stein</b></i><br class=""></div></div>
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