cfe-dev Digest, Vol 83, Issue 30 Clang *does* build with Visual Studio, but you need VS 2012 or newer.

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#1

I built LLVM34 successfully VS2013 , and am about to try clang34 which I also expect to work.

Are you saying the trunk generally will build and run? That is where I ran into problems, quite likely my own making. The type of problems I saw could be due to the trunk being a work in progress, but there were quite a few, so I went to the stable builds and have seen success there.

The string project I referred to is from ‘Open Clang Projects’ page

StringRef’ize APIs: A thankless but incredibly useful project is StringRef’izing (converting to use llvm::StringRef instead of const char * or std::string) various clang interfaces. This generally simplifies the code and makes it more efficient…

#2

Are you saying the trunk generally will build and run? That is where I
ran into problems, quite likely my own making. The type of problems I saw
could be due to the trunk being a work in progress, but there were quite a
few, so I went to the stable builds and have seen success there.

I use MSVC 2013 for my daily trunk Clang development on Windows, so yes, it
builds and runs.

The string project I referred to is from 'Open Clang Projects' page

*StringRef'ize APIs*: A thankless but incredibly useful project is
StringRef'izing (converting to use llvm::StringRef instead of const char *or
std::string) various clang interfaces. This generally simplifies the code
and makes it more efficient..

I think this is mostly taken care of, at least in places that matter. You
could search for '(FIXME|TODO).*StringRef' to find functions worth fixing.

#3

And post your issues compiling, trunk is supposed to be working at all times (compilation is broken now and then, but this is fixed within hours).

#4

OK, took another whack and YES the whole thing compiles and builds. One issue on VS13

223>LINK : fatal error LNK1210: exceeded internal ILK size limit; link with /INCREMENTAL:NO

I will try with flag setting in the message. Thanks!