[LLVMdev] LLVM and Visual Studio 2003

[Samuel Crow]

Hello Phillip,

If the number of broken versions of GCC listed at http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#brokengcc is any indication, I'd say the likelihood of getting a less robust version of Visual Studio to compile LLVM is practically nil.  You may have to either download GCC for Windows using the MSYS shell from http://mingw.org/ or upgrade to a newer Visual Studio.  Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

--Sam

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>From: Philip Ritchey <pritchey at microsemi-wl.com>
>To: "llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:56 PM
>Subject: [LLVMdev] LLVM and Visual Studio 2003
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>
>Hi,
> 
>I have what I think is a simple question: Is it at all possible to build LLVM with Visual Studio 2003?  
> 
>The “Getting Started with the LLVM System using Microsoft Visual Studio” document states that versions earlier than 2005 SP1 will not work because they do not support the C++ standard well enough.
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>Is it just some features of LLVM that require better C++ support and so building the whole suite requires Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or later?  Or is it the case that the core functionality of LLVM requires C++ support that VS2003 does not provide and so Visual Studio 2003 can never be used to build LLVM?
> 
>Thank you so much for your help,
>Philip