[LLVMdev] Patches for MinGW Build instructions

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Henrik Bach wrote:
>> From: Chris Lattner Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:11:44 -0600 (CST)
>> 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.
>
> OK, I'll put the text there. I'll take a closer look later.
>
>> 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."
>
> It took me a while to find out how to generate missing libraries for windows 
> dll's on MinGW. And unfortunately no one didn't/couldn't tell me how to do 
> it. I guess someone would be in the same situation. But, I assume future 
> versions of MinGW will support the psapi.dll and dbghelp.dll.
>
>> 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...
>
> I agree, do you have any suggestion?

How about the programmer's manual?  It seems like just a general hint for 
using mingw, not LLVM specific at all.  Should I remove the comment from 
the GSG?

-Chris

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