[LLVMdev] Cygwin Compile Fails for me too.

[Jeff Cohen]

Strike that -- you don't need to build the C front end period, if you 
have no need for it.  But you won't be able to run many tests.

Jeff Cohen wrote:

> If you use Microsoft's VC++ compiler to build LLVM, you don't need to 
> build the C front end (indeed, you can't even if you wanted to).
>
> Matthew Bromberg wrote:
>
>> OK I've got
>> GNU ld version 2.15.94 20041229
>> as and ar are the same version number etc.  I think the latest 
>> release is 2.16.
>> I guess you guys like to stay on the bleeding edge!
>>
>> I'll give it a try with the cfrontend included as suggested,  but I'm 
>> actually writing a pattern
>> matching compiler for a non-C scripting language and I'm looking for 
>> an optimizing back-end such as llvm. I didn't think I needed the C 
>> front end.
>>
>> In fact llvm seems to be the only active tool of it's kind in the 
>> free software world.  MLRISC seems to be somewhat ML specific and 
>> C--  isn't as far along.
>>
>> -Matthew
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