Re: [boost] [clang] How to use CLang for Windows?

On 9/23/2013 11:39 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Sergey Cheban wrote:

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23.09.2013 5:26, Daryle Walker wrote:

There was a recent conference where the Clang team announced a version of

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Clang

that's supposed to work on Windows (as opposed to kind-of working if you try real hard). Currently, it fails to process <iostream> with the following error messages:

1>CL : error : cannot mangle RTTI descriptors for type 'codecvt' yet 1>CL : error : cannot mangle the name of type 'codecvt' into RTTI descriptors yet 1>CL : error : cannot mangle RTTI descriptors for type 'codecvt_base' yet 1>CL : error : cannot mangle the name of type 'codecvt_base' into RTTI descriptors yet 1>CL : error : cannot mangle RTTI descriptors for type 'facet' yet 1>CL : error : cannot mangle the name of type 'facet' into RTTI descriptors yet 1>CL : error : cannot mangle RTTI descriptors for type '_Facet_base' yet 1>CL : error : cannot mangle the name of type '_Facet_base' into RTTI descriptors yet

OTOH, it can process <memory> and (haven't tried other headers yet), use some modern c++ features and produce working executables.

FWIW, I'm spoken to several of the Clang developers yesterday and today at the C++ standards committee meeting, and they emphasize their interest in improving support under Windows and would like help in the form of bug reports as they work out the kinks. They know they have a long way to go, but seem very interested in doing whatever is needed to make clang work really well on Windows.

That's nice but my experience in the past has been that no one on the clang mailing list responded when the inability to even build clang for Windows was made known to them. Furthermore Boost.Build did not support clang for Windows when I last tried it. So if I try to build and use clang for Windows to whom do I report problems about clang ? Furthermore does Boost.Build now have support for clang for Windows ? Clang is a great compiler under Linux. And I am willing to try to get it to work under Windows using Boost.Build to test Boost libraries, my own and others, under Windows, reporting problems to the appropriate places. But not if I am once again met by indifference when problems occur.