[LLVMbugs] [Bug 24310] New: Windows build cannot be installed silently or to a specific directory

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https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24310

            Bug ID: 24310
           Summary: Windows build cannot be installed silently or to a
                    specific directory
           Product: Build scripts
           Version: trunk
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P
         Component: autoconf
          Assignee: unassignedbugs at nondot.org
          Reporter: alexchandel at gmail.com
                CC: llvmbugs at cs.uiuc.edu
    Classification: Unclassified

The LLVM Windows installer (currently LLVM-3.6.2-win32.exe) cannot be installed
silently or locally, and accepts no command line arguments (including `/?`,
`/h`, `-h`, `--help`, or `-?`). Nor is there any way to obtain LLVM on Windows
without modifying the registry.

This is an especially an issue for Windows package managers like Chocolatey,
which want to distribute zip/7z/tar.gz/tar.xz archives (or even MSI) of
"portable" Windows binaries, and to install them to a sandboxed location (like
C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/llvm/) and symlink them into a common folder in
the PATH (like C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin).

The build scripts should be modified to produce either a
zip/7z/tar.gz/tar.xz/msi archive of the Windows binaries, or if all else fails
to add options to ".exe" installer to enable silent, local installation.

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