[LLVMdev] Patches for MinGW Build instructions

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Chris Lattner wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Henrik Bach wrote:
>
>> Here is my first try to document, how to build the llvm suite for MinGW.
>
> The GettingStarted patch looks fine to me, and I've applied it here:
> http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20050207/023986.html
>
> The other patch does not look ok.  In particular, it would be much better to 
> submit patches to make MinGW work as much like other platforms as possible. 
> In particular, instead of telling the user to patch their sources and pass 
> funny flags into make, it would be better to apply the patch to mainline CVS 
> and fix the makefiles. :)

Actually, looking closer, I think that some of the content added to the 
GettingStarted.html file should be moved to the HowToBuildTheCFE document. 
Specifically I'm thinking of:

"If you want to compile the C/C++ frontend, then upgrade to texinfo-4.5+ 
from source." ... so I removed it.

Also, I'm not sure what this is needed for:

"If you need to create a library for an MS DLL, do the following:

    1. pexports /C/WINNT/SYSTEM32/file.dll | sed "s/^_//" > 
/C/MinGW/lib/file.def
    2. Edit file and append @<ordinal> to the missing function name
    3. dlltool.exe -k -d /C/MinGW/lib/file.def -l /C/MinGW/lib/libfile.a."

Henrik, can you elaborate on this?  If this really is needed in this 
document, it would be good to move it somewhere other than a footnote...

-Chris

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