[LLVMdev] Building on windows

[Óscar Fuentes]

Sumesh Udayakumaran <sumesh.uk at gmail.com> writes:

>    I cant find a clear  answer to this anywhere in the release notes
> or the mailing list. Sorry, if it is mentioned somewhere and I have
> missed it.  Can someone clarify as to if for LLVM 2.6, cmake is
> optional.
>
> http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStartedVS.html
>
> The page says -
> "This step is currently optional as LLVM does still come with a normal
> Visual Studio solution file, but it is not always kept up-to-date and
> will soon be deprecated in favor of the multi-platform generator
> CMake."

I wouldn't be surprised if the hand-made VS project files shipped with
2.6 are out of date. So, in theory, you can use them but, in practice, I
recommend using cmake.

-- 
Óscar