[LLVMdev] LLVM built on VS C++ 2005

[Chris Lattner]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jeff Cohen wrote:
> Reid gave a good summary of what needs to be done.  To that list I would add:
>
>   * The X86 assembler printer needs to be modified to generate
>     assembler code that works with NASMW.  It currently generates
>     assembler for the GNU assembler, gas.  The goal is to use the GNU
>     tool chain as little as possible when using VC++ for native
>     builds.  Microsoft's MASM isn't really an option because Microsoft
>     stopped distributing it as part of Visual Studio a long time ago.

Another option is just to extend LLC to directly emit Win32 OBJ files 
directly, so you don't need an assembler...

-Chris

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