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What is the recommended way to get a front-end to run on Windows? I
have been able to successfully compile on Linux.

I'm worried about documents stating all the shortcomings of the Visual
Studio compiled version, but I do have mingw. Is there a guide for
using mingw to compile?

I thought about compiling to IR, but the documentation said the
language is not stable.

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What is the recommended way to get a front-end to run on Windows? I
have been able to successfully compile on Linux.

You mean llvm-gcc? Then, the same way as on linux modulo some
windows-specific weirdness. If you do not have any experience with
building of gcc on windows I'd suggest you to use pre-built tarballs.

I'm worried about documents stating all the shortcomings of the Visual
Studio compiled version, but I do have mingw. Is there a guide for
using mingw to compile?

This might help:
http://blogs.tedneward.com/CommentView,guid,229f99f9-1567-4515-b7ba-7262063f329f.aspx

However, note that it's ~ 1 year old, so some tweaking & tuning may be needed.

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Bot Tiger wrote:

I'm worried about documents stating all the shortcomings of the Visual
Studio compiled version, but I do have mingw. Is there a guide for
using mingw to compile?

If you have the complete mingw+msys installed, it's just the usual
./configure && make && make install, to get the LLVM libraries on your
system so that you can compile and link LLVM applications.

I never bothered to build llvm-gcc there myself, but you can just get
the Windows binaries on the download page and install those in addition
to the libraries.

Albert

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What is the recommended way to get a front-end to run on Windows? I
have been able to successfully compile on Linux.

I'm worried about documents stating all the shortcomings of the Visual
Studio compiled version,

Visual Studio should be fine as long as you do not wish to use llvm-gcc.

but I do have mingw. Is there a guide for
using mingw to compile?

just make sure you are not using Vista, otherwise its near enought the same as Cygwin :-

    http://www.aarongray.org/LLVM/BuildingLLVMonCygwin.html

Cygwin works too.