On Tue, 22 Apr 2025, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Previously, Xu Chiheng offered ITA for llvm, however, we haven't
> heard from him in over a year.
>
> Recently, I could successfully build llvm/clang related packages
> version 20.1.2 thanks to MSYS2 guys.
>
> Therefore, I would like to adopt these packages.
>
> NOTE: ocaml-llvm could not be built because ocaml related packages
> are too old.
How about lld? It's kind of a questionable/tricky one, because AFAIK
there's no way to differentiate the *target* being Cygwin or MinGW in it,
so trying to adapt it to Cygwin resulted in it not being right for
cross-compiling to MinGW. I gave up on adapting it to Cygwin, but it
could still be useful for cross-compiling. I was able to use my Cygwin
build of llvm/clang/lld to make an llvm-mingw using the host clang
successfully, so one could use it to make cross-compilers to
{i686,x86_64,armv7,aarch64}-w64-mingw32. I don't know if Cygwin has any
cross toolchain to the arm targets yet.
