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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have Visual Studio 2008 which builds LLVM just fine. The problem is that I need to build it using Visual Studio 2003. I am trying to figure out what it is about LLVM that makes VS2k3 inadequate and then determine if those parts can be removed so that VS2k3 can build a subset of LLVM, and hopefully the subset of LLVM that I need (which is the code generator).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Philip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Aaron Gray [mailto:aaronngray.lists@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 17, 2011 7:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> Philip Ritchey<br><b>Cc:</b> llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [LLVMdev] LLVM and Visual Studio 2003<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 17 May 2011 21:56, Philip Ritchey <<a href="mailto:pritchey@microsemi-wl.com">pritchey@microsemi-wl.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> <br>><br>> I have what I think is a simple question: Is it at all possible to build<br>> LLVM with Visual Studio 2003? <br>><br>> <br>><br>> The “Getting Started with the LLVM System using Microsoft Visual Studio”<br>> document states that versions earlier than 2005 SP1 will not work because<br>> they do not support the C++ standard well enough.<br>><br>> <br>><br>> Is it just some features of LLVM that require better C++ support and so<br>> building the whole suite requires Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or later? Or is it<br>> the case that the core functionality of LLVM requires C++ support that<br>> VS2003 does not provide and so Visual Studio 2003 can never be used to build<br>> LLVM?<br><br>Try Visual Studio 2010 Express, its free :-<br><br> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/">http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Aaron<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>