[LLVMdev] Minor correction to the Visual Studio documentation

[Mikael Lyngvig]

I most politely retract my statement about GnuWin32.  I can see now, that
I've some experience in building LLVM, that it is mandatory.  So be it :-)

However, I have been playing around with the idea of making stand-alone
.NET tools to replace the GNU tools.  But that approach only works on a
small, limited number of platforms and .NET programs aren't exactly known
to be overly fast.  So I kneel before GnuWin32 :-)

The only other set of tools I know for this purpose are the UnxUtils
package, but I don't think it is being maintained actively anymore.  So it
is probably not usable.  And, again, I spoke too early, knowing too little
about the whole ordeal.


Cheers,
Mikael
-- Love Thy Frog!

2012/5/27 NAKAMURA Takumi <geek4civic at gmail.com>

> 2012/5/24 Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org>:
> > I know that the documentation says that I am to install GnuWin32 tools,
> but
> > I strongly oppose that idea.  We Windows people have our own tools and
> > practices and I think the LLVM developers should open up to a more
> > multi-platform approach than the current (Unix then, perhaps maybe,
> Windows)
> > approach.  CMake works brilliantly, though, so there are no issues in
> > building neither the win32 or win64 versions of LLVM.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, I don't need the GnuWin32 tools at all.  I can
> > succesfully build and link a tiny "hello world" sample program without
> > problems.  I do have many Windows ports of Unix tools in my standard
> path,
> > though, and perhaps that is the reason that the build succeds without
> > GnuWin32.
>
> Gnuwin32 is required, for now, when you run tests (check, check-all,
> clang-test).
> Then, you would not need to update your %PATH% to specify
> LLVM_LIT_TOOLS_DIR to CMake.
>
> Let me know if you know other (llvm|clang)-tests-compatible tools
> other than gnuwin32 (and msys).
>
> FYI, some clang/llvm tests are marked as "REQUIRES: shell". They rely
> on sh behavior and they are skipped if bash.exe is not found in your
> %PATH%.
>
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