On Sat, 3 May 2025, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On 2025-05-03 12:45, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps 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. > > > We're making good progress on getting patches for Cygwin merged upstream. > > I'm updating the latest in https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/pull/5368 > > including a 'README-patches.md' to track the status of the patches. I'd like > > to see the git repos on these packages updated, but I don't know the process > > here. Also, I'd bet that having at least a test version of llvm would be > > helpful to the rust effort (I think msys2 is being used at this point, at > > least the bug report that llvm-config wasn't work went there instead of > > here). > > Congratulations - great news! > > and as a maintainer (of other packages), you can modify and push to the > playground branches, which will run Scallywag CI jobs; > and/or as these packages are orphaned, you may adopt them with an email to > apps > "[ITA] mingw64-x86_64-/llvm", preferably including links to repos and > Scallywag CI jobs, then as owner modify and push to any branches.
I don't want to step on Takashi's toes, plus I'm having issues with iostreams on Cygwin that it sounds like he's not so I need to reconcile with his patches as well. (By "on Cygwin" I mean it works fine for me on MSYS2, so it seems like a gcc4 C++ ABI thing).
