<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">the problem is that very few LLVM developers use or know anything about Windows.<br>
The only way for this to change is for people who do know and care about Windows<br>
to step forward, work on improving Windows support, and contribute their Windows<br>
viewpoint to design discussions etc.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As it is now, Windows users will quite likely drop LLVM because of the somewhat immature Windows support. I know, I did for a year or two. Now the support is mature enough that I dare try it out for real. Therefore I suggest that you make it a point to always release adequate Windows binaries and documentation whenever a new release of LLVM is made. I'm referring to the v3.0 release, which had no Windows binaries.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think that is going to change as the Windows support matures. For now, I'd like to volunteer to help out as a Windows evangelist (ouch, that sounds so Microsofty). If you need help building LLVM on Windows or help to keep the Windows documentation up-to-date, please feel free to call on me. Right now I cannot commit to so much in terms of coding, except, perhaps helping on the llvm-ar project, but I might one day be able to contribute substantial hours. I have good knowledge of Windows NT as I have used it since 1994. Also, I have worked as a build master once. I do have equipment enough that I can set up a dedicated, albeit slow, Windows build server to do daily builds or whatever might be needed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>One project I'd like to complete pretty soon is to go through the build instructions, for mingw32, and see if I can't somehow create a mingw64 build. I believe the 32-bit platform is dying by the hour so I'm rather eager to have a mingw64 version of LLVM/Clang. Also, I'd love to make a .tool to automatically retrieve and build LLVM and Clang from the rather large set of 3rd party tools that are needed to build it. Whether this is useful or not, I still don't know because I haven't been through the actual process of building the mingw32 version of LLVM/Clang myself. I was so fortunate that I discovered the Windows release in v3.1 and quickly grabbed it and tried it out. And it seems to run very well so far.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Mikael.</div></div>