[cfe-dev] Clang for Windows and Boost

[Edward Diener]

On 3/17/2011 1:39 PM, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Larry Evans wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>   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.
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>
> This is horribly misleading. Clang is a perfectly reasonable C++98/03 compiler on Linux.
>
> The issues you ran into concern C++0x, where the world is much messier. The C++0x situation on Linux is admittedly frustrating because of library issues:
> 	- libstdc++<= 4.4 doesn't work with a C++0x compiler that implements the current WP's formulation of rvalue references. Jeffrey Yasskin provided a patch for this.
> 	- libc++ hasn't been fully ported to Linux
> 	- libstdc++>= 4.5 has an issue with generalized initializer lists; I worked around that problem in Clang, but I don't know if this is the last problem with these libraries or just the first.

I am not concerned about Linux.

Can clang built with MingW/MSYS ( or less probably VC++10 ) compile 
Boost under Windows ? If so, can we get a toolset in Boost Build to use 
clang under Windows so Boost libraries can be tested in Windows using 
clang ?