Re: What's lacking: a good intermediate form

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:03:35 -0400

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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:03:35 -0400
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: 09-02-132 09-02-136 09-02-144 09-03-003 09-03-010 09-03-019 09-03-023 09-03-031 09-03-043
Keywords: LLVM
Posted-Date: 11 Mar 2009 19:03:39 EDT

Pertti Kellomaki <pertti.kellomaki@tut.fi> writes:


> Bartc wrote:
>> The Getting Started documention makes it clear this project is
>> intended for Linux, judging from the two-dozen linux-specific utilties
>> it expects to be available (I haven't mentioned what I had to go
>> through to deal with tar, gz and bz2 files, especially tar with it's
>> useless help info). I happen to use Windows.
>
> You are correct that the system is mostly being developed on
> unix-like systems (Linux, OSX, etc.). However, you can use it
> on Windows by installing Cygwin,...


This information is well-hidden, when looking at the llvm web pages.
If llvm supports windows, it ought to advertise that fact!


Is Cygwin required just for building llvm, or it is also needed
when using llvm-based tools (e.g. a compiler that uses llvm
to generate machine code)?


- Bob



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