[cfe-dev] Clang for Windows and Boost

[Larry Evans]

On 03/17/11 11:37, Larry Evans wrote:
> On 03/17/11 11:04, Edward Diener wrote:
>> Thanks to the help I received I have been able to build clang for 
>> Windows both using MingW and VC++ 10. Are either, or both, of these 
>> builds stable, in that they can be used for building Boost and other 3rd 
>> party libraries ?
>>
>> If so, I am going to try to get some of the Boost Build experts to 
>> supply a toolset for clang under Windows so it can be used to build and 
>> test Boost libraries under Windows. Currently the clang toolset support 
>> in Boost works only under Linux as I understand it.
> Hi Edward,
> 
> I had problems with using move and clang on linux:
> 
>   http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2011-February/013216.html
> 
> I also tried a workaround using the libcxx; however, that also had
> problems:
> 
>   http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2011-February/013246.html
> 
> Hence, I don't think clang is usable on linux yet.
> 
> -Larry

I should amend that last statement because, in this newsgroup,
Jeffrey Yasskin announced a patch for the gnu libstdc++ lib:

  http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2011-February/013310.html

which avoided some linux problems with clang. However, I've not
tried the patch.

-Larry