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: Joshua Boyce (raptorfactor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-30 01:55:41

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Jim Bell <Jim_at_[hidden]> 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<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.
>
> hth,
> -Jim
>
>
>
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I believe Chandler is talking about Clang using the 'native'
libraries/headers/etc which is VERY different to using mingw-w64. Having
test runners for both would be ideal, but a test runner for the 'native'
case only would be preferable to the 'mingw-w64' case only (imo)...