[LLVMdev] making cygwin nightly builds available?

[Jeff Cohen]

Strike that... the prebuilt binaries are not likely to be of any use to 
you.  You'll need Visual Studio .NET 2003 to build it yourself.

Jeff Cohen wrote:

> Marshall Spight wrote:
>
>>> FYI, work progresses on the Win32 native port which you might also find
>>> interesting. It might even get done before the cygwin stuff. Jeff Cohen
>>> is working on that. Perhaps he can indicate the status of that effort.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I recall reading on the llvm archives somewhere that there are 
>> significant
>> performance issues with the cygwin platform. True? If so, the Win32 
>> native
>> version would probably be preferable. Actually, if it packages and 
>> deploys
>> better, (as in, no requirement to install anything cygwin,) which I
>> suspect it will,
>> that alone would be reason to prefer the native version.
>>  
>>
> It's true.  The native win32 version does not use cygwin in the 
> slightest.  It's built with Microsoft Visual Studio.  If you have 
> that, it's trivial to build (double click the solution then run "build 
> solution"), but it does require that you have bison, sed, and flex on 
> your machine.  Prebuilt binaries are available on illuvium.net.
>
> It's usable so long as you are writing your own front end.  There are 
> serious technical issues standing in the way of getting llvm-gcc built 
> natively on Windows.  Also, only the JIT or interpreter is usable at 
> this time.  I haven't gotten around to getting assembler output yet 
> that can be built with NASMW.
>
>>
>>
>> Marshall Spight
>>
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