[LLVMdev] Compile llvm-gcc fortran backend using mingw

[Albert Graef]

Hi Duncan,

On 10/17/2011 04:44 PM, Duncan Sands wrote:
> PS: A more convincing (IMO) argument against dragonegg is that it doesn't
> work on windows.  That's because the gcc plugin architecture doesn't work
> on windows.  Takumi has been thinking about this and has been enable to
> get dragonegg to work on windows anyway using some clever tricks.

Interesting, thanks for the information. Is that already available 
somewhere, or are there any plans to release it along with LLVM 3.0?

I don't use Windows much myself, but some Pure users and many of my 
students do. Pure relies on LLVM-capable compilers for its C/C++/Fortran 
inlining capabilities, so being able to just point Windows users to a 
binary llvm-gcc package to make that work is very convenient. Of course 
we can stick to the latest llvm-gcc 4.2 on Windows for a while, but if 
there's a dragonegg version that works there then I'd certainly like to 
give that a whirl some time.

Albert

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