On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:35:27 -0700 (PDT)
Jeremy Drake wrote:
> 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.
cygwin has not had lld in the packages at least in previous version (8.0).
Therefore, I did not try to build it.
--
Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp>
