[LLVMdev] Status of compiling on MSVC < 2012

[Zachary Turner]

Also, this question arises from the fact that the documentation (
http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStartedVS.html#id5) explicitly states that 2012
is required.


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:

> As the title suggests, what is the status of compiling llvm on versions of
> MSVC less than 2012?  Not so much "Does it work?", but more like "Should
> any thought be given to whether or not something will break it?"
>
> Right now there are a bunch of warnings when compiling LLDB on Windows
> because it uses various symbols which have been defined since VS2012, but
> which are re-defined in llvm support header files.  In the process of
> addressing this, I noticed in include\llvm\Support\DataTypes.h.in that it
> redefines a bunch of other stuff as well from stdint.h and inttypes.h with
> a comment about how these definitions were only added in certain updates to
> VC++.  However, this was an update to MSVC 2010 if my memory serves me
> correctly, so if it's not necessary to support 2010, then I can clean up
> some of the stuff in this header at the same time that I'm fixing the
> warnings.
>
> Zach
>
>
>
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