[LLVMdev] Still can't compile backend or frontend on Windows

[Aaron Gray]

> It's a shame this fine tool can't get better installation support for 
> Windows.  If it did I suspect it would get a lot more coverage.   After 
> 5 months or so I still have no way to compile the backend tools let 
> alone the C frontend on windows.  I have tried both Cygwin and Mingw so 
> far.  MingW is preferrable since distributions of the binaries would not 
> require the cygwin.dll.  It would be nice if the full backend binaries 
> under windows were available for download. I understand that the VC++ 
> build has downloadable binaries somewhere, but it lacks the final 
> support for generating executable output (correct me if I'm wrong).

I have build instructions for the debug build on Cygwin :-

        http://angray.members.beeb.net/llvm/MakingLLVM.html

Aaron