Re: [boost] [build] Default compiler options for a toolset

Subject: Re: [boost] [build] Default compiler options for a toolset
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-10 03:37:29

On 12/10/2013 1:40 AM, Joshua Boyce wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]>wrote:
>
>>
>> You can clone the repository with my changes at 'develop' from
>> https://github.com/eldiener/build.git. You will need to build clang on
>> Window using VC++ RTL in order to test out clang using clang-cl. My
>> user-config.jam line for clang is:
>>
>> using clang : 3.4 : C:/Programming/VersionControl/
>> bclang/bin/Release/clang-cl.exe : <cxxflags>"/D_HAS_EXCEPTIONS=0
>> /D_STATIC_CPPLIB /GR-" <compatibility>vc11 ;
>>
>> You can build the latest clang-cl etc. by following the instructions at
>> http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html and using Visual Studio to build
>> everything. You will also need the free Visual Stusio Express to build
>> everything.
>>
>> Using clang-cl still has compiler problems when typeinfo is included. I
>> have already informed the clang developers of this via a bug report. But it
>> would still be very nice if we could have an official toolset for it in
>> Boost Build. More info about running clang-cl is at
>> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#clang-cl .
>>
>>
> Won't the regular snapshots suffice? Last I checked it included
> clang-cl.exe etc.

Quite possibly. I have never used the snapshots but I just get the 
latest from the llvm/clang repositories and build.

>
> http://llvm.org/builds/
>
> Btw, do you know off-hand what bug# is tracking the typeinfo problems? (If
> not it's np, I'm sure it's not hard to find with the right search
> parameters.)

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