[LLVMdev] Building with Microsoft Visual Studio

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Richard Smith wrote:

> I am working on a port of LLVM targeting a proprietary VM. Thus far
> development has been under Linux and Cygwin. Cygwin licensing would appear
> to require that LLVM built under Cygwin would have to be released under the
> GPL, so alternatives are being investigated.
> 
> Using MS Visual Studio and following the instructions at
> http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStartedVS.html (Getting Started with the LLVM
> System using Microsoft Visual Studio Overview) has not been successful.

Have you tried MinGW? Coming from a *nix background, I find MinGW far 
easier to use than the microsoft tools.

Erik
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