[LLVMdev] LLVM libraries in Windows binaries?

Sean Silva chisophugis at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 18:29:00 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Tony Kelman <tony at kelman.net> wrote:

> Most platforms with package managers have easy access to pre-compiled
> binaries of LLVM, but not so much on Windows. The clang installers are
> nice, but LLVM is more than just clang. It would be super useful for
> out-of-tree languages and projects that build on the LLVM libraries (Julia,
> Rust, etc) to be able to use upstream binaries directly. Would it be
> possible or practical to put the static libraries (and shared dlls once
> that works well enough to be usable), headers, and additional tools like
> llvm-config into the installer, either the same download or a separate
> package? Are the installer generation scripts in a repository somewhere I
> could look at and help?
>

IIRC Rust has a pinned revision of LLVM in their repo, which they update at
their leisure. Has that changed and now they want to rely on prepackaged
binaries?

-- Sean Silva


>
> Thanks,
> Tony
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