[cfe-dev] build clang failed under MSYS (windows)

[Reid Kleckner]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:48 AM, asmwarrior <asmwarrior at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, every one.
> After building for about One hour, I have successfully build the clang.
>
> Oh my god, the build folder size is 3.5G!
> and the folder \build\Debug+Asserts is 2.5G.
> especially, under the folder: \build\Debug+Asserts\bin
>
> clang++.exe   430M
> clang.exe       430M
> llc.exe             170M
> ....
>
> why these files were so big?  (just because Debug enabled?)

Yes.  It helps to have a beefy machine for building LLVM & clang.

> After strip command, the clang++.exe is about 20M.

Reid