[LLVMdev] preferred platform?

[Andrew Lenharth]

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 10:36 -0700, Marshall Spight wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What's the state of llvm on various platforms? I've tried working
> with it on windows/cygwin a few times, and been fairly frustrated.
> I made some abortive efforts on RedHat 9, which also didn't go
> so well, but I put much less time into them.

Platforms that are used daily include FC2, Redhat something (has issues
with a bad compiler), debian (on alpha and x86), OSX.  Other people on
this list use FreeBSD, cygwin, and (partially I think) MSVC.

> Is there a plan or a timeline to end up with some low-intensity
> linux target? Sort of like: grab these three RPMs and go. Having
> to get my own binutils and gcc and compile from scratch makes
> life hard.

<shameless debian plug>
If you are tracking testing:
apt-get install llvm llvm-cfe llvm-libs llvm-doc
</shameless debian plug>

> What do things look like on the Mac?

OSX is used daily be some developers, and a nightly tester runs on it.

> I'm working on an initial implementation of a new language, and
> I'm fairly far into the interpreter. Once that's done, I'd like to start
> an llvm backend, since it's clearly the coolest thing going. Should
> I aim for 1.5, or 2.0, or is it premature to say?

Excellent.  I think it depends on how much effort you want to put into
tracking the main tree.  Writing for 1.4 or CVS both make sense.  I
don't think there are any changes that would make it difficult to port
to 1.5 from 1.4 when it comes out.

Andrew Lenharth
andrewl at debian.org
http://www.lenharth.org/~andrewl/