[LLVMdev] can't build LLVM under Cygwin | released MinGW llvm-2.3 image

[Chuck Zhao]

Julien Lerouge wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:12:05PM -0400, Chuck Zhao wrote:
>   
>> I used to be able to build LLVM (from source) under Cygwin for llvm-2.2 
>> and previous releases, but can't continue the trend since the release of 
>> LLVM 2.3.
>> I have tried a wide variety of gcc compilers (gcc 3.4.4, 4.1.2, 4.2.4 
>> and 4.3.2) on cygwin, they all fail at the same location:
>>
>> C:\cygwin\home\czhao\ResearchTools\LLVM\2.3\obj2.3>make
>> make[1]: Entering directory 
>> `/home/czhao/ResearchTools/LLVM/2.3/obj2.3/lib/System'
>> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> make[1]: Leaving directory 
>> `/home/czhao/ResearchTools/LLVM/2.3/obj2.3/lib/System'
>> make[1]: Entering directory 
>> `/home/czhao/ResearchTools/LLVM/2.3/obj2.3/lib/Support'
>> llvm[1]: Compiling APInt.cpp for Release build
>> /home/czhao/ResearchTools/LLVM/2.3/llvm-2.3/lib/Support/APInt.cpp: In 
>> member function 'void llvm::APInt::Profile(llvm::FoldingSetNodeID&) const':
>> /home/czhao/ResearchTools/LLVM/2.3/llvm-2.3/lib/Support/APInt.cpp:170: 
>> error: call of overloaded 'AddInteger(const uint32_t&)' is ambiguous
>> /home/czhao/ResearchTools/LLVM/2.3/llvm-2.3/include/llvm/ADT/FoldingSet.h:216: 
>> note: candidates are: void llvm::FoldingSetNodeID::AddInteger(int)
>>
>> ...
>>
>> The GettingStarted page mentions that gcc 3.4.4 is used for the 
>> X86/Cygwin/MinGW build. Is this still true? or there is/are special 
>> flags/options I am missing?
>>
>>     
>
> Try this:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/14823/match=uint32%5ft+cygwin+llvm
>
> I might be wrong, but I think the latest version of Cygwin got this
> fixed upstream.
>
> The archives on GMANE are a very good source of information for
> cygwin/mingw build.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Julien
>
>   
Julien,

Thank you very much
This fixed the problem nicely.

Chuck