Hi again,<div><br></div><div>The Visual Studio getting started guide (<a href="http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStartedVS.html">http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStartedVS.html</a>) mentions the "llvm-lit" tool, but fails to mention these things:</div>
<div><br></div><div> 1. Either you need to run it from bash or a similar Unix shell, as Windows does not recognize the extensionless Python script that it is.</div><div> 2. Alternatively, you can invoke it using Python like this: python bin/llvm-lit test</div>
<div><br></div><div>I know that the documentation says that I am to install GnuWin32 tools, but I strongly oppose that idea. We Windows people have our own tools and practices and I think the LLVM developers should open up to a more multi-platform approach than the current (Unix then, perhaps maybe, Windows) approach. CMake works brilliantly, though, so there are no issues in building neither the win32 or win64 versions of LLVM.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As far as I can tell, I don't need the GnuWin32 tools at all. I can succesfully build and link a tiny "hello world" sample program without problems. I do have many Windows ports of Unix tools in my standard path, though, and perhaps that is the reason that the build succeds without GnuWin32.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If I can help, please let me know. My angle to LLVM is this: I need a portable, multi-targeting code generator and optimizer, and I happen to prefer Windows as my platform. So, perhaps I can write or update some documentation on how to use LLVM on Windows.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Mikael Lyngvig</div>