r368874 - Document clang-cpp in the release notes for clang

Chris Bieneman via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Aug 15 09:49:42 PDT 2019


It actually does not. Getting the MSVC export list is a much harder problem. I'll update the release note.

-Chris

> On Aug 14, 2019, at 10:32 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim.grasman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 6:48 PM Chris Bieneman via cfe-commits
> <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Author: cbieneman
>> Date: Wed Aug 14 09:49:52 2019
>> New Revision: 368874
>> --  ...
>> +- In 9.0.0 and later Clang added a new target, clang-cpp, which generates a
>> +  shared library comprised of all the clang component libraries and exporting
>> +  the clang C++ APIs. Additionally the build system gained the new
>> +  "CLANG_LINK_CLANG_DYLIB" option, which defaults Off, and when set to On, will
>> +  force clang (and clang-based tools) to link the clang-cpp library instead of
>> +  statically linking clang's components. This option will reduce the size of
>> +  binary distributions at the expense of compiler performance.
> 
> Does this also work for Windows/MSVC builds?
> 
> Thanks,
> - Kim



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