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: 2013-09-30 06:56:25

On 9/30/2013 1:59 AM, Joshua Boyce wrote:
> 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.

There is no toolset other than 'clang' for using clang under Windows 
AFAIK. If a separate one is needed for clang under Windows then that's 
up to the Boost Build developers to provide one. I have no idea how to 
do so and am not proficient with Boost Build and bjam.

I do know that if I use toolset=clang under Windows it seems to find the 
header files which it needs but I have no idea how it is doing so. I am 
invoking this from the normal Windows command processor and not from the 
MingW Linux-like command processor so it appears to be working for me.

My build of clang for Windows was done through the source and followed 
the instructions at http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html for using 
VS2010 for building the latest clang.