[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] PSA: clang-cl can self host now!

[Rafael Espíndola]

Nice. This should probably go to on the release notes :-)


On 25 February 2015 at 15:48, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> Over the weekend I had a random urge to make clang-cl be able to self host.
> As of r230539, this should now be possible.  Steps to try this out:
>
> 1) Run vcvarsall.bat, same as you would for an MSVC hosted build.
> 2) set CC=CXX=clang-cl  (make sure it's in your path
> 3) Run CMake as you normally would, no special flags needed.
> 4) There is no 4, that's it!
>
> Currently LLD will not build, so if you have cloned LLD into your repo you
> will need to not build it.  llvm, clang, and lldb should build though, so
> you can run "ninja lldb clang" for example and produce a working build.
> I've been told that a fix for LLD is forthcoming sometime today or tomorrow.
>
> Feel free to post any issues you encounter.
>
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