On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 9:35 AM Sandro Mani 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
> >> 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.
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