Go CMake! - sent from my open source android phone. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jordan Rose" <jordan_r...@apple.com> Date: Aug 24, 2012 4:28 PM Subject: [cfe-dev] Warm Fuzzies To: "cfe-...@cs.uiuc.edu Developers" <cfe-...@cs.uiuc.edu>
Now that the mailing list is back up, I can share this testimonial from my friend: > Wow, most impressive. > Compiling LLVM + Clang, on Windows. > With Visual Studio 2008. > It's cross-platform software, without the *nix crap. > > Calling it "straightforward" or "painless" is an understatement. > > Even _without_ reading the documentation I was _twice_ warned to read, I easily: > - Downloaded the source (10 MB archives each, impressive by itself) > - Generated the project files with CMake > - Compiled in Visual Studio 2008 > > Total time spent: > ~2 hours, from scratch. > > Oh, and it supports C++11 almost completely. > Even Visual Studio doesn't, and neither does GCC. > > And guess what? Not a _single_ error when compiling it. > Binaries work 100% flawlessly. Heck, they even give _colored_ console output. > ... on Windows. > > Oh, and did I mention the source code is outstandingly well-written, readable C++? > It almost makes Java look worse. > > GCC, on the other hand... exact opposite in every way. > I don't even know how to begin describing it. > Even _with_ reading the documentation (which documentation?), I never once managed to compile it on Windows. That is, _after_ it made me wait _overnight_ on several occasions, with _zero_ payoff for me, and lots of wasted time. > > I can't find the right words, other than to say... > _This_ is how cross-platform is supposed to work. > /Massive/ props to the team for the solid work. I won't comment on his actual choice of feedback, but I thought I'd share with everyone. Nice work especially to our heroic VS builders when the majority of us work on Mac or Linux. Jordan _______________________________________________ cfe-dev mailing list cfe-...@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
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