Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org>: > On 03/22/18 15:56, Keith Mendoza wrote: > >Looking into using clang on Windows might be worth the effort to get > >net-snmp code caught up to C99. Google Chrome now uses clang to > >compile in Windows: > >http://blog.llvm.org/2018/03/clang-is-now-used-to-build-chrome-for.html > > We do not only need a compiler on Windows but also the Windows API header > files, e.g. for building the winExtDLL module. Microsoft owns the copyright > on the Windows API header files. Does clang for Windows include Windows > header files? I think MinGW comes with a clean-room rewrite of the Windows > header files to avoid copyright issues. See also > http://mingw.org/history.
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