+1. This is really fantastic news, and frankly happened way faster than I would have thought possible. Thanks to everyone involved!
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 1:51 PM Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 1:29 PM, David Major <dma...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> Bug 1443590 is switching our official Windows builds to use clang-cl >> as the compiler. >> >> Please keep an eye out for regressions and file a blocking bug for >> anything that might be fallout from this change. I'm especially >> interested in hearing about the quality of the debugging experience. >> >> It's possible that the patch may bounce and we'll go back and forth to >> MSVC for a while. You can check your build's compiler at >> `about:buildconfig`. Treeherder is running an additional set of MSVC >> jobs on mozilla-central to make sure we can fall back to a green MSVC >> if needed. >> >> Watch for more toolchain changes to come. The next steps after this >> will be to switch to lld-link and enable ThinLTO. That will open the >> door to a cross-language LTO that could inline calls between Rust and >> C++. In the longer term we can look into cross-compiling from Linux. >> >> But for now, shipping our most-used platform with an open-source >> compiler is a huge milestone in and of itself. Big thanks to everyone >> who has contributed to this effort on the Mozilla side, and also big >> thanks to the developers of LLVM and Chromium who helped make clang on >> Windows a realistic possibility. >> > > A lot of people have wanted to see this day for years (for various reasons > - an open source toolchain, potential for cross compiling, unified > toolchains across platforms, etc). This is a *major* milestone. And while > the transition will likely have a few bumps, the payoff should be well > worth it. > > Thank you to everyone who helped us get here. From the initial work to > support Clang on Windows a few years ago. To the upstream work that was put > into LLVM and Clang (especially by Google/Chromium). To those that worked > through all the issues to transition the compiler today. This was a > significant effort by a lot of people. We should all be ecstatic we're > finally crossing this bridge. I know I am! Congratulations! > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
