[cfe-dev] Clang on Windows targeting gcc requirements

[Yaron Keren]

It's an uncommitted patch teaching clang to support the mingw-64 directory
structure instead of the hardcoded c:\mingw.


2015-06-26 0:13 GMT+03:00 Edward Diener <eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com>:

> On 6/25/2015 2:13 PM, Yaron Keren wrote:
>
>> See http://reviews.llvm.org/D5268
>> <
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D5268&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=CnzuN65ENJ1H9py9XLiRvC_UQz6u3oG6GUNn7_wosSM&m=YgSrUuiAhPt76cF_h_LXb8Mg84W8p9nMvUiL3koHKP4&s=aW_6t6KDGfo5hO6NiTn5Hy9afNhzwfkX-BZHT9PtXmk&e=
>> >
>>
>
> I don't understand what the above link means, or how it is connected to my
> suggestions below.
>
>
>>
>>
>> 2015-06-25 10:46 GMT+03:00 Edward Diener
>> <eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com
>> <mailto:eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com>>:
>>
>>     For either the latest clang built from souce on Windows or a binary
>>     distribution of clang on Windows it appears that clang expects the
>>     supporting gcc include files and lib files to be in the hardcoded
>>     directory:
>>
>>     c:\mingw
>>
>>     and follow the mingw directory structure.
>>
>>     1) Can this please be changed in the future so that some environment
>>     variable ( maybe CLANG_GCC ) can be set to the gcc installation
>>     rather than use a hardcoded path ?
>>
>>     2) Can clang be updated to support the mingw-64 directory structure
>>     and not just the mingw directory structure ? The mingw-64 distros
>>     seem now to be the preferred gcc distributions on Windows and
>>     support the latest versions of gcc.
>>
>>     Do I need to make these suggestions on the clang bug tracker for the
>>     suggestions to be seriously considered ?
>>
>
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