[llvm-dev] Building a single .rst file

[Nathan James via llvm-dev]

On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 12:40 -0400, Paul C. Anagnostopoulos via llvm-dev 
wrote:
> I hope you won't mind me continuing to pester you with build
> questions.
> 
> I've managed to get the build going. One of the things CMake does is
> create a file a.exe that tries to figure out which version of the C
> compiler is available. Malwarebytes does not like that executable.
> Has anyone run into this problem?
> 
> Meanwhile, I've told Malwarebytes not to worry about the build
> directory or its subdirectories.
> 
> Ah, now I have more information from Microsoft Security Essentials,
> also concerning a.exe. The Trojan is called Win32/Fuery.C!cl
> 
> ------------------------------
> Category: Trojan
> 
> Description: This program is dangerous and executes commands from an
> attacker.
> 
> Recommended action: Remove this software immediately.
> 
> Items: 
> file:C:\LLVM\Build\CMakeFiles\3.18.0\CompilerIdC\a.exe
> 
> Get more information about this item online.
> ---------------------------------
> 
Completely harmless, see here.
https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2018-June/067667.htmlhttps://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2018-June/067672.html
Basically thats just antivirus being overly sensitive.
A lot of antivirus software on windows complain when they see any `.exe` file which is why I find them mostly pointless.

> 
> At 7/29/2020 12:14 PM, Xing GUO wrote:
> > On 7/30/20, Paul C. Anagnostopoulos <paul at windfall.com> wrote:
> > > Is "Unix Makefiles" what I want if I am building on Windows using
> > > GNU make?
> > 
> > Yes, exactly.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Xing
> 
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