[cfe-dev] libc++abi on linux

[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 10, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:

> 
> 
>> On Jul 8, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Ben Pope wrote:
>> 
>>> On Monday, July 09, 2012 08:49 AM, "C. Bergström" wrote:
>>> 
>>>> libcxxrt + libunwind is the way to go imho
>>>> https://github.com/pathscale/libcxxrt
>>>> https://github.com/pathscale/libunwind
>>>> 
>>>> These have been tested to work with clang - Admittedly the build process
>>>> may not be straight forward, but if enough interest maybe we solve that
>>> 
>>> It would be nice to have a documented/tested/working way of compiling
>>> *and linking* programs using libc++/clang/llvm on linux, it seems that
>>> libc++abi is pretty close to getting that working.
>>> 
>>> This comes up on the list every couple of months and libcxxrt/libunwind
>>> are usually suggested over libc++abi.
>> 
>> Actually, the only people that suggest that are the pathscale folks.
> 
> Is it NIH, or you think that libc++abi is technically superior as compared to
> libcxxrt?


Last we spoke about it, the Pathscale folks were not willing to contribute their library to the  LLVM project.

-Chris