On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:53:48 +0100, Vincent Richomme <foru...@smartmobili.com> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:43:36 +0100, Riccardo Mottola <mul...@ngi.it> > wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Vincent R. wrote: >>> When will you switch to llvm on windows platform ? >>> I can see from website that for now you are releasing a solution based > on >>> msys/mingw-4.4 >>> and could it be possible to use a msys/llvm alternative ? >>> Would it work ? >>> >> We are not going to "switch" any time soon. I don't think GNUstep is >> going to "switch" anytime soon on other targets either. GCC is currently > >> our preferred compiler. David Chisnall is doing some excellent and >> interesting work in getting llvm and also the libobjc2 runtime to work >> with GNUstep. >> >> Our goal is to support llvm+lobobjc2 as a second alternative. >> >> Supporting llvm on windows could be possible I gues, depending on how >> good llvm works with the msys environment. But currently I think nobody
>> is working on that directly, David doesn't work on windows and the >> developers currently active on Windows have their hands full fixing >> other problems, like theming and backend issues. > > Ok so it means I can make some testing in my spare time and try to do some > feedback > Just for information I was able to compile clang with msys/mingw (but I had to recompile toolchain from mingw-w64 project because with original mingw I got a memory exhausted error from the linker). Now mingw is trying to fix some bugs and once they have finished I would be tempted to create an installer with toolchain from mingw-w64. It would simplify process for people wanting to test on windows. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev