[cfe-dev] Clang 3.5 Release Pre-Pre-Pre-Announcement

[Hans Wennborg]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim.grasman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm assuming this is because the Clang/LLVM libraries are already
>> built with the MinGW triple and my tool doesn't explicitly override
>> the default triple.
>
>
> Hans built it with MSVC, but he set -DLLVM_DEFAULT_TRIPLE=i686-pc-mingw32 so
> that the gcc-compatible frontend for clang would emit Mingw ABI object
> files.  At the time that this flag was added, the MSVC ABI support was
> weaker.  Today, I'm more confident in it, so I think we'll revisit this
> decision for future builds.  If you do a normal CMake build of clang, the
> default ABI will match the toolchain you use to build Clang.

I'll flip the default to msvc on the next build so we get a few
snapshots out with that setting before 3.5.