Re: [boost] clang-win, again

Subject: Re: [boost] clang-win, again
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-26 08:04:03

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 01:37, Edward Diener via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> I have not attempted to build clang-8.0 under Windows. I ran into too
> many errors in the past attempting to build clang on Windows, which were
> ignored when I mentioned it on the clang developers list, to want to
> keep pursuing another attempt.
>

It has become clear [following discussions on the cfe-dev mailing list]
that vc/msbuild do(es) not scale well [enough] to build Clang/LLVM. The
recommended [and what more or less seems to be the only way] is to use the
combo Ninja/Cmake/VC. There are some spells [see llvm web-site] you could
utter that allows you to bootstrap Clang with VC and then build Clang with
the [that] latest Clang.

When I run the preprocessor tests using b2 with my toolset clang-7.0
> targeting VC++ I get no errors at all, so I really do not know what you
> are seeing or what you are doing to produce "lots of errors". I am
> working with the 'develop' branch of Boost Preprocessor.
>

As far as I read, Edward said there were 2 errors, one of which he thought,
could be ignored.

degski
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