On Sat, 3 May 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps wrote: > 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). > > > > 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).
Takashi: if you push your current state to playground (or another branch) I can look at updating the patches from what was merged upstream. Also, I'd then have an llvm to try to build & package lld against.
