[cfe-dev] Clang for Windows and Boost

[Jean-Daniel Dupas]

Le 18 mars 2011 à 17:42, Edward Diener a écrit :

> On 3/18/2011 12:30 PM, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/17/2011 10:30 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>>>> John McCall<rjmccall at apple.com>   writes:
>>>> 
>>>>>>> What do you mean that clang on mingw lacks support ?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> "lacks *eh* support".
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> eh = exception handling.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Out of curiosity, what's the mingw exception model?
>>>> 
>>>> Last time I checked, official MinGW was configured with setjump/longjump
>>>> while other distributions used DWARF2. The latter offers better
>>>> performance but fails to work when it has to unwind a stack frame that
>>>> belongs to a Windows function (that's the case when you throw an
>>>> exception from a callback.)
>>> 
>>> I am stilling searching for the answer whether or not clang, built with
>>> MingW/MSYS under Windows, is currently a workable version under Windows
>>> with the header files and libraries MingW and gcc supplies. Do you or
>>> anybody know this ? Or should I still be waiting on future clang
>>> development for this to become a reality ?
>> 
>> It's not going to work perfectly out of the box, especially since we are missing exception-handling support for MinGW.
>> 
>> If you're willing to dig into the guts of the compiler, debug issues, and write patches, that's great. I don't know if it's a day's worth of work or a month's worth of work. But if you just want to use the compiler, I suggest using one of the better-supported platforms and hoping that someone else is going to do the work to make Clang viable on MinGW.
> 
> OK, it sounds like waiting for some future version of clang on Windows 
> with MingW is best. Good luck in making that happen. I will be a great 
> boon for Windows programmers to be able to use clang under Windows and 
> not just under Linux.


It does not works only under Linux. clang also support Mac OS, FreeBSD, and lot more OSes.


-- Jean-Daniel