[LLVMdev] modify cmakefiles to set the default triple of msvc and mingw to i686-pc-mingw

[OvermindDL1]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Dunbar<daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Óscar Fuentes<ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
>> Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> MSVC *is* continuously checked; see
>>> http://google1.osuosl.org:8011/builders/clang-i686-xp-msvc9.  Anyone
>>> who breaks the MSVC build will get a nastygram from buildbot.
>>
>> This is new news for me.
>>
>> If the developer who broke the msvc build receives a nastygram, would he
>> urged to fix it when he has no msvc compiler and probably no Windows
>> machine either? The "don't break the build" mantra applies to *nix
>> only. No LLVM developer will be bashed for breaking the msvc build.
>> Which is understandable: the pain of multiple compiler C++ support is
>> too much for mere mortals.
>
> It is frequently possible to unbreak the build just from reading the
> log. In practice this isn't that different from Darwin vs Linux,
> except that MSVC likes to break more often. :)
>
>> Anyways, that buildbot only checks one msvc compiler (right?). It is not
>> infrequent a broken build on some compiler version for a long time.
>
> Right. If we get developers who care about MSVC (and want to do
> something about it) they are welcome to fix this.

If you have pre-made scripts for doing an MSVC build that will upload
the results to that same page, I could donate daily MSVC8 time if you
want to add another build to that list.  I may have enough time to do
complete builds for other targets too.