[cfe-dev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

[Óscar Fuentes]

Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> writes:

>> So, by dropping support for VS 2010, you will be making any developer
>> who uses Windows XP - potentially a large number of developers given
>> Windows XP's still huge market share - unable to build clang.
>
> We could create some special bonware that installs 7 on any XP machine
> it encounters. Volunteers?

Alternatively those developers working on Windows XP can install
MinGW-w64:

http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/