On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 9:35 AM Sandro Mani <manisan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 30.03.22 15:31, Sandro Mani wrote: > > > > On 30.03.22 15:26, Neal Gompa wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 9:25 AM Michael Cronenworth <m...@cchtml.com> > >> wrote: > >>> On 3/30/22 7:38 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: > >>>> Hi > >>>> > >>>> What does llvm-mingw mean exactly? FWIW, there is a mingw-llvm > >>>> package. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks > >>>> Sandro > >>> > >>> It is a complete, cross-compiling, Windows PE building > >>> toolchain[1][2] that uses > >>> llvm instead of gcc. The 'mingw-llvm' package is the llvm backend in > >>> PE form and not > >>> the complete toolchain. > >>> > >> The main llvm package should be capable of this already, as it's a > >> retargetable compiler. The clang package provides a clang program > >> that's capable of this. > > This makes me wonder, is mingw-llvm actually useful? I took interest > > into it way back when I thought it was necessary to get mingw-rust > > building, but this turned out not to be the case (resp mingw targets > > are now built directly in the main rust package). So any point in > > keeping mingw-llvm around? > To add to this: as I understand it's just the llvm backend which could > be used on a Windows host, but serve no purpose in cross-compiling from > linux to mingw?
The main value for mingw-llvm would be for supporting a mingw-mesa package. The latter needs LLVM infrastructure in the first place to work, and there's a lot of work going on in Mesa around Mesa-on-Windows right now. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
