[LLVMdev] lib/System Unleashed - Need Your Help!

[Henrik Bach]

I would like to volunteer for the port of Interix and Win32 platforms, if no 
one objects against this.

/Henrik

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>From: Reid Spencer <reid at x10sys.com>
>Reply-To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>To: LLVMdev List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: [LLVMdev] lib/System Unleashed - Need Your Help!
>Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:27:51 -0700
>
>Folks,
>
>With some MacOS help from Nate, I've begun the conversion of LLVM to use
>lib/System, the operating system independence layer. Currently, the
>library has implementations for three abstractions: Path, Program, and
>Signals. These provide some basic utilities for manipulating file system
>paths, finding and executing programs, and cleaning up after Signals.
>The implementations should work on most Unix systems. Linux and MacOS
>are already verified.
>
>The implementation of the lib/System interface should work on Solaris,
>BSD, and perhaps a few other Unix systems. If you run into problems,
>please let me know. Right now, the only thing that should affect any
>tool other than llvmc is the RemoveFileOnSignal and
>PrintStackTraceOnErrorSignal functions. These have been moved out of
>lib/Support and into lib/System.
>
>Until I can get some hardware for each kind of system (should happen
>this fall), I would like to ask for volunteers to assist in the testing
>and porting of lib/System to: Darwin, Solaris 8/9, AIX, Cygwin, BSD 4.X
>and Win32 platforms. I would like to see LLVM some day soon run natively
>on Win32 platforms without the use of Cygwin. This requires a complete
>conversion of LLVM to use lib/System and then porting of lib/System to
>Win32. Does anyone want to volunteer for the port? My Win32 knowledge is
>pretty rusty (circa 1997).
>
>Can I get a volunteer on each platform?  I was thinking:
>
>Darwin: Nate
>Solaris: Brian
>BSD: Vladimir M
>AIX: Misha ?
>Cygwin: ?
>Win32: ?
>
>*All* you need to do is notice when I make changes to lib/System and
>then update, reconfigure, and compile lib/System (as checked in), run
>the lib/System test suite, and send me the results. If anything breaks,
>I'll figure out what needs to change and patch it (for Unix systems).
>
>
>Reid.
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