[LLVMdev] Windows Installer

Rafael Auler rafaelauler at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 15:40:13 PDT 2014


Your install dir has a whitespace. Have you tried quoting? e.g.
<LLVMInstallDir>"C:\Program
Files (x86)\LLVM"</LLVMInstallDir>

Best regards,
Rafael Auler

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Eric Mader <emader at gmx.us> wrote:

>  I changed tooset-vs2013.props to this:
>
> <Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"
> <http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003>>
>   <Import
> Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Platforms\$(Platform)\PlatformToolsets\v120\Microsoft.Cpp.$(Platform).v120.props"
> Condition="Exists('$(VCTargetsPath)\Platforms\$(Platform)\PlatformToolsets\v120\Microsoft.Cpp.$(Platform).v120.props')"/>
>   <Import
> Project="$(VCTargetsPath)\Platforms\$(Platform)\PlatformToolsets\v120\Toolset.props"
> Condition="Exists('$(VCTargetsPath)\Platforms\$(Platform)\PlatformToolsets\v120\Toolset.props')"/>
>
>   <PropertyGroup>
>     <LLVMInstallDir>C:\Program Files (x86)\LLVM</LLVMInstallDir>
>
> <ExecutablePath>"$(LLVMInstallDir)\msbuild-bin";$(ExecutablePath)</ExecutablePath>
>
> <LibraryPath>$(LLVMInstallDir)\lib\clang\3.6.0\lib\windows;$(LibraryPath)</LibraryPath>
>   </PropertyGroup>
>
>   <ItemDefinitionGroup>
>     <ClCompile>
>       <!-- Set the value of _MSC_VER to claim for compatibility -->
>       <AdditionalOptions>-m64 -fmsc-version=1800
> %(AdditionalOptions)</AdditionalOptions>
>     </ClCompile>
>   </ItemDefinitionGroup>
> </Project>
>
> It still doesn't work... Is there something else I need to change?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
>
> On 9/29/14, 10:41 AM, Rafael Auler wrote:
>
> Open the file toolset-vs2013.props and you'll understand what's happening
> and where the path is set. It tries to fetch the LLVM installation path
> from the Windows registry. Just fix this (maybe editing your registry or
> editing the .props file, whatever suits you best).
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Eric Mader <emader at gmx.us> wrote:
>
>>  I copied the x64 toolsets by hand and now when I try to compile a file,
>> I get an error message saying that the build tools for llvm-2013 cannot be
>> found. I guess that this is because the installer didn't correctly add the
>> LLVM tools to $PATH. How can I correctly add the LLVM tools to the path?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On 9/29/14, 10:22 AM, Eric Mader wrote:
>>
>> Ah, OK. I did find the install.bat script and ran it in a command shell
>> w/ admin access.  I have VS 2010 and VS 2013 installed. The script reported
>> that it copied 6 files. Poking around, I noticed that it wrote toolsets
>> only for win32. (vs2010, vs2013, vs2113_xp) Looking at the script, it seems
>> like it should write x64 toolsets too. I'll try copying the x64 toolsets by
>> hand to see what happens
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eric Mader
>>
>> On 9/29/14, 9:38 AM, Rafael Auler wrote:
>>
>> I was not necessarily asking you to build, but just to check your
>> installation folder and see whether you have "tools/msbuild/install.bat"
>> there because I don't know if the Windows installer puts this there.
>> However, if you want to build outside VS, I recommend mingw-w64. If you
>> have any difficulties about the VS build process though, feel free to ask
>> questions :-)
>>
>>  Usually, to build LLVM on a Windows system from scratch (with VS
>> installed), I would just install git for windows, which already installs a
>> lot of important GNU tools, and ask to put everything in my path. Then I
>> would install CMake and put this in my path. Afterwards, open a shell with
>> VS paths, create a build folder, run CMake -G"Visual Studio
>> ...<yourversion>" and then "msbuild <name of project>". A lot of people
>> prefer to use ninja instead of msbuild, though, but you must install ninja
>> and use CMake -GNinja instead.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Eric Mader <emader at gmx.us> wrote:
>>
>>>  I was hoping to not have to build LLVM myself, especially on Windows.
>>> Can anybody help me with the Windows installer?
>>>
>>> Failing that, I find the directions for how to compile on Windows hard
>>> to follow? Can I build using Cygwin?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/29/14, 8:11 AM, Rafael Auler wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure about the Windows installer, but if you build and install
>>> LLVM for Windows from the source code, you should be able to go to the
>>> installation folder, find a subfolder named "tools/msbuild" and run the
>>> "install.bat" script. This should make your LLVM toolset appear in VS.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Eric Mader <emader at gmx.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I’m trying to install LLVM-3.6.0-r218288-win32.exe on Windows 7
>>>> Ultimate x64. The install doesn’t complain, but the toolset doesn’t show up
>>>> in either Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2010. Also I selected the
>>>> choices to add LLVM to the path for every user and put an LLVM icon on the
>>>> desktop. Neither of this happened. Can anyone tell me how to get this to
>>>> work?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Eric Mader
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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