Hi!
After watching Chandler’s presentation and also hearing Visual C++ Express will be available only for Windows 8 Metro Apps, I got interested in contributing.
Any suggestions for a newcomer? What is the current situation, where to start, what people are already doing, any information is welcome.
Thanks a lot!
Best regards
Mello
Hi Cesar,
Any suggestions for a newcomer? What is the current situation, where to start,
what people are already doing, any information is welcome.
Michael Spencer has done a great investigation on this.
A quick summary of some issues:
Basically Clang cannot self-host at the moment due to the Microsoft C
runtime being non-conforming to C99. Mingw/cygwin works.
Most of the headers can be parsed, with the exception of MFC and ATL
headers.
Exception handling doesn't work.
Clang does not support VC-style inline assembly syntax.
There's no drop-in for cl.exe at the moment.
No PDB debug information is generated, rendering debugging quite useless.
Thanks!
I’ve run the tests on my Windows 8 box and got this:
– Testing: 4632 tests, 4 threads –
Testing: 0 … 10… 20… 30… 40… 50… 60… 70… 80… 90…
Testing Time: 226.37s
Expected Passes : 4585
Expected Failures : 36
Unsupported Tests : 11
1 warning(s) in tests.
Are there tests that can be used for measuring the progress of the Windows port? Or recommendation for creating more tests?
Thanks a lot for the attention! I am so happy for clang error messages, congratulations!!!
Best regards
Mello