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 01:59:13

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> 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<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.
>
>
>
>
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Using toolset=clang on Windows still gives "clang-linux" for me, which
needs to be fixed. We also need to distinguish between 'native' Clang and
'mingw-w64' Clang (see me other post) as they use an entirely different
standard library and CRT.