[cfe-dev] alternate clang driver

[David Chisnall]

Can you tell us a little bit more about what makes this different?  I use clang for cross-compiling for ARM, and invoking clang as arm-none-linux-gnueabi-clang, or as clang -ccc-host-triple arm-none-linux-gnueabi enables it to find all of the other bits of the toolchain fine - I'm using it as an almost drop-in replacement for gcc in the WebOS PDK, which shipped with gcc.  The only difficulty it had was finding the various tools, since the Linux toolchain stuff ignores -B, but this was solved with a few symlinks into the sysroot...

David

On 20 Oct 2011, at 18:04, Reed Kotler wrote:

> We have developed an alternate clang driver and placed it as open source 
> in google code.
> http://code.google.com/p/alternate-clang-driver/
> 
> Most people are using cross compilers for MIPS. We needed something 
> different than what the clang driver provides us at this time.
> 
> This driver behaves enough like gcc cross drivers for us to run make 
> files and other things meant for gcc right out of the box. We have for 
> example run dejagnu gcc using it with no problems.
> 
> It's still in development but it works very well for us right now.
> 
> I intended to put more documentation for it before announcing it but our 
> schedules are overloaded now and I can't assign anyone to do that for 
> the next 2 months so I decided to just announce it now.
> We can put resources into bug fixing and extensions but we already know 
> how it works so it's not essential for us to do more docs at this time. :)
> 
> It's a simple program and written in python and I think it's pretty easy 
> to understand from just looking at the code.
> 
> We welcome other people to help make it work better for more platforms 
> than just MIPS.
> 
> 
> 
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