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 w

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

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
Ivan Garramona 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. I'm glad that it works f

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

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
niXman writes: > 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. In my projects, programs compiled with Clang (since 3.2) run about 5% fa

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

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
Alexpux writes: > This topic about removing dependency from GCC libs - libstdc++ and libgcc as > I understand. Why shall users interested on Clang worry about replacing libstdc++ and libgcc when there are core features missing, such as C++ DLLs? > There are two projects that can replace them:

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 Ivan Garramona
2013/12/24 Óscar Fuentes > Ivan Garramona > 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 runti

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

2013-12-24 Thread Alexpux
25 дек. 2013 г., в 0:08, Óscar Fuentes написал(а): > Alexpux 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-td403539

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

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
Alexpux 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?) GCC exception

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

2013-12-24 Thread Alexpux
24 дек. 2013 г., в 23:13, Óscar Fuentes написал(а): > Ivan Garramona > 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 Óscar Fuentes
Ivan Garramona 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 headers (SDK, standard C/C

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 > Baruch Burstein > 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 link

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

2013-12-24 Thread Óscar Fuentes
Baruch Burstein 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 manipulating LLVM IR files.

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 wrote: > You have to compile Clang with MinGW, otherwise Clang will use VS's > toolchain. > > > 2013/12/23 Baruch Burst

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 wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2013, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I need some advice on configuration options for building the GNU readline >> libra

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 instal