[cfe-dev] Living on Clang

[Douglas Gregor]

On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:10 PM, John Freeman wrote:

> On 4/14/2010 3:51 PM, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> Helping is easy: just build Clang on your platform and start using it as your main compiler for LLVM and Clang development.
> 
> I took your suggestion, and it's worked out pretty well so far.
> 
> I did not quite understand how to add my own system header paths to the 
> hard-coded paths in clang/lib/Frontend/InitHeaderSearch.cpp (my attempt 
> failed to solve the problem), so I ended up having to create a link from 
> /usr/include/stdarg.h to 
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/include/stdarg.h so that 
> <iostream> would compile.
> 
> In my latest small project (51 headers, 14 sources so far), Clang was 
> able to compile every source, some of which included templates, except 
> for the ones that instantiated 
> boost::uuids::string_generator::operator() (Boost.Uuid is a new library 
> in version 1.42). 

Hrm. The Boost.UUID tests are passing using Boost from trunk (and yesterday's Clang from trunk). Did you file a bug about the failure you're seeing?

	- Doug