Re: [boost] [clang][Windows] Volunteer for a Boost regression test runner for Clang on Windows

Subject: Re: [boost] [clang][Windows] Volunteer for a Boost regression test runner for Clang on Windows
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-29 18:54:17

On 9/29/2013 4:09 PM, Jim Bell wrote:
>
> On 2013-09-29 2:54 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> Chandler Carruth has asked for a volunteer to start running boost
>> regression tests for the Clang on Windows project.
>>
>> For more about this project, see
>> http://blog.llvm.org/2013/09/a-path-forward-for-llvm-toolchain-on.html.
>>
>> Chandler cornered me at the C++ committee meeting last week, and
>> emphasized
>> how much they would like to see boost tests passing using Clang in a
>> Visual
>> Studio environment. This would be a big plus for boost developers and
>> users
>> in the Windows environment IMO, so I hope we can help them out.
>
> FWIW, I started on a Clang regression (using some mgw-w64 version), but
> quit when I found that it would only build static libraries, which
> caused a huge swath of tests to fail for that reason alone.
>
> I don't recall it misbehaving badly in other cases, though I may not
> have looked too closely.

Really ? Try 'bjam toolset=clang" under Windows in the Boost 
preprocessor test directory.