[cfe-dev] RFC: LLVM should require a working C++11 <thread>, <mutex>, and <atomic>

[Óscar Fuentes]

"writeonce at midipix.org"
<writeonce at midipix.org> writes:

> To address #1 in a somehow unorthodox manner: musl libc is expected
> become available on NT at the end of 2014, or very early in 2015. Once
> available, portable[*] projects that successfully build against musl
> on linux (which occasionally requires a few patches, mostly due to a
> project working around bugs in popular libc's in strange and
> mysterious ways) should successfully build and execute on NT without
> any source-level modifications.[**]  Below is additional technical and
> general information about the project.

MinGW(-w64) is not about compiling "portable" Linux software on Windows,
it is about compiling Windows API/CRT software on Windows, just like the
MSVC++ toolchain.

IIUC what you propose is another Cygwin that imposes specific
requirements on how software must be and requires "rebuilding the
world". No thanks.

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