[LLVMdev] Building with Microsoft Visual Studio

[Richard Smith]

This is another possible way forward. Like you, I am more familiar with a
Posix environment - but there are those I work with who would prefer the
Visual Studio solution if it were possible.

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Regards,
Richard


-----Original Message-----
From: Erik de Castro Lopo [mailto:mle+cl at mega-nerd.com] 
Sent: 20 September 2007 21:53
To: LLVM Developers Mailing List
Cc: Richard Smith
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Building with Microsoft Visual Studio

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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