[LLVMdev] LLVM-GCC

[Bill Wendling]

On Apr 19, 2011, at 7:25 AM, John Criswell wrote:

> On 4/19/11 9:16 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> yafan zhao<yafan.zhao at gmail.com>  writes:
>> 
>>> I need you help here. I complied LLVM 2.8 using CMAKE +MS Visual Studio 2008
>>> on windows machine. I have most of the .exe in bin, such as lli and
>>> clang, and they works fine, but there is no llvm-gcc. Do I need to compile
>>> llvm-gcc separately and how to do it on windows machine?
>> Building llvm-gcc with Visual Studio is not supported. You need to build
>> LLVM with MinGW and then follow the instructions for building llvm-gcc.
>> 
>> BTW, the most current release is 2.9.
> 
> It's not stated explicitly above, but llvm-gcc is not contained within 
> the LLVM source distribution.  You can either download it as a separate 
> tarball off of the downloads web page or download it via SVN by checkout 
> it its separate SVN path (http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm-gcc-4.2).
> 
And here are some instructions on how to build the front-end:

	http://llvm.org/docs/GCCFEBuildInstrs.html

Of course, we encourage you to use clang or dragonegg, as 2.9 was the last official release of llvm-gcc.

-bw