[LLVMdev] Building LLVM as a shared library on MinGw (Makefiles)

[Óscar Fuentes]

Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> writes:

> I didn't think it was possible to build an LLVM DLL on Windows, but maybe
> I'm wrong.

It is fairly easy with MinGW because gcc/ld can auto-(export/import) the
symbols. It is not as robust as explicitly declaring the visible symbols
(as VS requires) but it used to work well enough for creating an usable
monolithic LLVM.dll.