[llvm-dev] Showcase of the Windows/ARM64/MinGW target

[Hayden Livingston via llvm-dev]

Ok. How much work was it to enable ARM64 codegen? Is it is
significantly more work than for Linux targets? Are there any special
relocations in ARM64 land?

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2018, Hayden Livingston wrote:
>
>> So are you saying that LLVM can be built as ARM64 on Windows now?
>> CMake doesn't show me an option for ARM64 when using MSVC on Windows.
>> I have the latest CMake.
>
>
> I'm saying that LLVM can produce code for the Windows/ARM64 target.
>
> As for compiling LLVM itself to run on ARM64 on Windows, I don't know how to
> configure MSVC to do that; MSVC doesn't install the ARM64 compiler by
> default but you manually need to check a box in the installer (available
> since 15.4, and more intended for actual public use since the 15.8 preview).
> No idea how you configure that in CMake.
>
> You can build LLVM+Clang for ARM64 with Clang/mingw-w64/libcxx though, with
> the same toolchain used to build VLC in that demo.
>
> // Martin