Andrew Lowe <c...@wht.com.au> writes: [snip]
> With respect to using clang, the reason I use it is that it's stable, > but more importantly the error reporting is vastly superior to gcc which > helps with teaching. It tells the students where the actual error is, > not like gcc which wildly flails around and then points to something 8 > lines away, confusing the bejezzus out of the students. Clang's diagnostics are usually better than GCC's, but the latter improved a lot on recent releases. Besides, when Clang's is not clear enough, looking at what GCC has to say often helps to clear the matter. > I must also say > that contrary to what you've said and Oscar, who's email came in as I'm > writing this, clang, to me is very stable. I usually run Gentoo Linux > machines and there are very few packages that I can't build with > clang. Clang on Linux (or MacOS) is a different thing altogether. I'm using Clang on Linux as my primary C++ compiler for many years. But we are talking about Windows/MinGW here, and Clang is far from being a solid option. Probably it is enough for simple learning projects, but I wouldn't use it beyond that. > Anyway, lets save the compiler battles for another day, it's 1:30 > Monday morning and I can finally build my environment - yeah!!! > > Thanks for the help everyone, Your welcome and I'm glad to see your problem solved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
