[PATCH] D135353: Add script to download prerequisites for Windows build

Tue Oct 11 05:22:16 PDT 2022

hans added inline comments.

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Comment at: llvm/utils/release/download_prerequisites.bat:37
+echo Those dependencies are just downloaded, and you can install them
+echo system-wide manually
+set url_vs2019=https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_community.exe
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pbo-linaro wrote:
> hans wrote:
> > I suppose VS is tricky, but for Python  and Perl, it would be *really* nice if they could also be handled automatically. Don't they have any official zip files we could use?
> Python and Perl have portable version, but as discussed [[ https://discourse.llvm.org/t/build-llvm-release-bat-script-dependencies/65657/4?u=pbo-linaro | here ]], the python used for build will be a dependency at runtime for lldb. Since that involves to packages python *with* llvm release, there is more work involved.
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> For Perl, I don't know exactly how it's used, but the comment "OpenMP runtime" made me adopt a prudent approach.
> 
> 
The current Python version used for the win releases is 3.10.5. Since we're already using it to build, we might as well hard-code it here. If there is a way to download and extract that without running commands manually it would be very handy.

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