[cfe-dev] What are the plans for creating a Windows Binary Release of Clang?

[Reid Kleckner]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Devin Crumb <bitogre at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:16 AM, "C. Bergström" <
>> cbergstrom at pathscale.com> wrote:
>>
>>> *My* view is that both a Mingw* and MSVC toolchain alternative is
>>> absolutely necessary.
>>>
>>
>> Sure. However, as you point out, you aren't contributing any patches in
>> this direction.
>>
>
> While Bergström may not be contributing patches in this direction, this
> is a direction I would like to contribute patches for.  But, as this is the
> first Open project that I am looking to contribute to, I am looking for
> information on how to contribute in the direction I am interested in.  So
> any help I can get in learning the right way to do this would be greatly
> appreciated.
>

If you want a toolchain completely independent of either MSVC or mingw,
you'd need more than just patches to clang and LLVM.

Yaron gave a complete list of things you'd need, and the big thing that's
missing is a C library subproject.  Without adding this to LLVM, you will
always need either mingw or MSVC for C headers and C libraries.

So far as I know, no one has plans to create or integrate another C
library, and I don't see any reason to create a third environment.
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