[LLVMdev] LLVM MinGW binaries on Vista issue

[Anton Korobeynikov]

Hello, Jon

The main idea of llvm-gcc is to be a drop-in replacement of gcc. So,
if you know how to install & run gcc on your system, you should be
able to do the same with llvm-gcc (thus no "Getting Started" entry).
Basically the only "packaging differences" wrt normal gcc is that
we're shipping w32api & mingw-runtime packages with llvm-gcc. Surely,
you still need binutils installed (to get linker + assembler).

> * incorrect PATH setup...currently using "c:\llvm;c:\llvm-gcc\bin;C:\Windows\system32;c:\Windows;c:\Windows\System32\Wbem"
Looks ok. However, llvm itself is not required.
> * incorrect dir structure...currently using "c:\llvm" and "c:\llvm-gcc" as peers...no spaces in dirs...should they be nested?
No. LLVM itself is not required at all, however, no

> * missing dependency...e.g. is MSys with a correct /etc/fstab required?
No, msys is not required (like for normal gcc)

> Would you reply with the configuration (llvm* dir layout, PATH, OS flavor, required dependencies) for the test system successfully using the binaries to build Qt?
1. Just ordinary Windows XP SP2 box. No additional stuff installed
2. mingw gcc is installed in the c:\mingw, binutils is unpacked into
the same dir, thus c:\mingw\bin is added to PATH
3. LLVM sources are located in the c:\llvm\src, build directory is
c:\llvm\build, nothing added to PATH
4. llvm-gcc lives in c:\llvm-gcc\bin, nothing added to PATH

If you have problems with invocation of gcc / llvm-gcc it's usually
helps to add -v flag to cmdline to see, what it tries to executed.

Hope this helps.

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University