[LLVMdev] Cygwin support completely dropped?

[Aaron Gray]

>> > I believe Aaron Gray has had success building llvm on Cygwin:
>> > http://www.aarongray.org/LLVM/BuildingLLVMonCygwin.html
>> >
>> > However, those instructions may be a bit out of date...
>> >
>
> Tanya:
> OK. And how about the clang frontend. Is it usable without having 
> dependencies
> with the rest of the infrastructure?
>
> Which are your typical Linux platforms for LLVM and llvm-gcc frontend and 
> clang?
>
> Is it possible to use Bruno's MIPS backend on LLVM 2.0?
>
>>
>> I have been unable to build either llvm-gcc-4 or llvm-gcc-4.2 on the LLVM
>> 2.1 prerelease 1. Sorry I dont have the time or inclination to solve 
>> either
>> of these at the moment.
>>
>> There are previous posts by me on this list regarding the errors.
>>
>> I do intend to solve llvm-gcc-4.2 on Cygwin at some point in the future 
>> for
>> GCC++ LLVM support however I cannot do this for the LLVM 2.1 release :(
>>
>> Aaron
>
> Aaron:
> Thank you for the information. I'll start from there.
> Where you able to build the llvm-2.0 release on Cygwin?

Yes llvm-2.0 was fine on Cygwin, you will need use the llvm-gcc-4 llvm-2.0 
release with it too.

Aaron