[LLVMdev] LLVM built on VS C++ 2005

[Jeff Cohen]

Chris Lattner wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> GNU's frontends are in C is that the problem ? I do not see the area
>> properly. Please can you explain thurther.
>
> I'll let Jeff explain this one.

The problem is that gcc cannot be built using VC++.  You'll have to ask 
the gcc project as to why, but they've made it clear they have no 
intention of supporting this.  Even if it could, a gcc build would still 
require a complete unix emulation environment.