[cfe-dev] Clang for Windows and Boost

[Edward Diener]

On 3/18/2011 1:23 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>
> Le 18 mars 2011 à 17:42, Edward Diener a écrit :
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>> 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.

OK. But when it supports that OS that of course nobody uses I will 
revisit it. Good luck !