Re: GNUStep on Windows

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi there,

Vincent R. wrote:
> When will you switch to llvm on windows platform ?
> I can see from website that for now you are releasing a solution based on
> msys/mingw-4.4
> and could it be possible to use a msys/llvm alternative ?
> Would it work ?
>    
We are not going to "switch" any time soon.  I don't think GNUstep is 
going to "switch" anytime soon on other targets either. GCC is currently 
our preferred compiler. David Chisnall is doing some excellent and 
interesting work in getting llvm and also the libobjc2 runtime to work 
with GNUstep.

Our goal is to support llvm+lobobjc2 as a second alternative.

Supporting llvm on windows could be possible I gues, depending on how 
good llvm works with the msys environment. But currently I think nobody 
is working on that directly, David doesn't work on windows and the 
developers currently active on Windows have their hands full fixing 
other problems, like theming and backend issues.

Riccardo