[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] [RFC] Raising LLVM minimum required MSVC version to 2013 for trunk

[Kim Gräsman]

Hi all,

(-lldb-dev, -llvm-dev, I'm not subscribed there)

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Daniel Dilts <diltsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If that is followed exactly support for VS2012 would not be able to be
> dropped.  However, it is rather easy to get the latest VC++ compiler from
> Microsoft at no cost (Express edition anybody?), so I don't have any real
> concern with dropping support for VS2012.

Does anybody actually do LLVM/Clang development with VC Express?

Just to let you know that any bump in toolchain requirements also
affects tool developers (I maintain IWYU, based on Clang). I have
VS2012 via my employer, but the jury's still out on VS2013 adoption,
so I'm a bit worried about being left behind.

If LLVM and Clang can indeed be configured to use the compiler from VC
Express, this whole e-mail is moot, so I'd love to hear more about
such setups.

- Kim