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

[Zachary Turner]

They can be installed side-by-side, and unless your company's IT department
has a strict policy which will block you from installing VC 2013 Express,
you should be able to continue unhindered.


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim.grasman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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