Re: [Mingw-w64-public] win-builds config options

2013-12-24 Thread Adrien Nader
Hi, On Tue, Dec 24, 2013, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: I need some advice on configuration options for building the GNU readline library. I am new to win-builds and mingw64 Platform is: MS Windows XP SP3. I have the latest cygwin installed and the new win-builds separately installed.

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] win-builds config options

2013-12-24 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey Note that I have no problem to compile libraries using MSYS and Win-Builds. Vincent Torri On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Adrien Nader adr...@notk.org wrote: Hi, On Tue, Dec 24, 2013, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: I need some advice on configuration options for building the GNU readline

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Baruch Burstein
And if I compile it with MinGW then it uses MinGW's toolchain, no? Does Clang not have it's own toolchain (specifically linker)? On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Ivan Garramona heavenandhell...@gmail.comwrote: You have to compile Clang with MinGW, otherwise Clang will use VS's toolchain.

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com writes: And if I compile it with MinGW then it uses MinGW's toolchain, no? Correct. Does Clang not have it's own toolchain (specifically linker)? They are creating one ( http://lld.llvm.org ) but it is not production-ready yet. llvm-link is for

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Ivan Garramona
I think Clang svn uses its integrated assembler. But it still needs GCC for linking though. 2013/12/24 Óscar Fuentes o...@wanadoo.es Baruch Burstein bmburst...@gmail.com writes: And if I compile it with MinGW then it uses MinGW's toolchain, no? Correct. Does Clang not have it's own

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
Ivan Garramona heavenandhell...@gmail.com writes: I think Clang svn uses its integrated assembler. IIRC Clang uses the integrated assembler since a few releases ago. But it still needs GCC for linking though. On Windows, Clang needs MinGW or VS for linking and for the runtime libraries and

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Alexpux
24 дек. 2013 г., в 23:13, Óscar Fuentes o...@wanadoo.es написал(а): Ivan Garramona heavenandhell...@gmail.com writes: I think Clang svn uses its integrated assembler. IIRC Clang uses the integrated assembler since a few releases ago. But it still needs GCC for linking though. On

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
Alexpux alex...@gmail.com writes: My 50 cents to this topic. There are some interesting discussion about porting clang to self-hosting on windows http://clang-developers.42468.n3.nabble.com/Porting-libcxxabi-Unwind-to-Windows-MingW-32-bit-td4035390.html AFAIK Clang could use (actually uses?)

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Alexpux
25 дек. 2013 г., в 0:08, Óscar Fuentes o...@wanadoo.es написал(а): Alexpux alex...@gmail.com writes: My 50 cents to this topic. There are some interesting discussion about porting clang to self-hosting on windows

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Ivan Garramona
2013/12/24 Óscar Fuentes o...@wanadoo.es Ivan Garramona heavenandhell...@gmail.com writes: I think Clang svn uses its integrated assembler. IIRC Clang uses the integrated assembler since a few releases ago. But it still needs GCC for linking though. On Windows, Clang needs MinGW or VS

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread niXman
Ivan Garramona 2013-12-25 00:19: I'm even planning to move my projects from the buggy VC++ 2013 to Clang. Why Clang? Why not GCC/MinGW-W64? As far as I know, Clang optimizes much worse than GCC. Small plus Clang in that it compiles a little bit faster than GCC. I really do not understand the

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] clang on Windows

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
Ivan Garramona heavenandhell...@gmail.com writes: Clang+MinGW-w64 is working pretty well for me. For me the inability of creating C++ DLLs (exporting classes and template instantiations) is a show stopper. I had problems with some Boost libraries (boost::thread, IIRC) but that could be fixable.

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] win-builds config options

2013-12-24 Thread wynfield
Vincent Torri wrote: Hey Note that I have no problem to compile libraries using MSYS and Win-Builds. Vincent Torri That's nice Vicent. Please tell us what libraries or kinds of libraries are you talking about? And... are you invoking the MSYS/Win-Builds configure build chain from