Re: GNUStep on Windows

[Vincent Richomme]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:53:48 +0100, Vincent Richomme
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:43:36 +0100, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ok so it means I can make some testing in my spare time and try to do
some
> feedback
> 

Just for information I was able to compile clang with msys/mingw (but I
had to 
recompile toolchain from mingw-w64 project because with original mingw I
got a memory
exhausted error from the linker).
Now mingw is trying to fix some bugs and once they have finished I would
be tempted
to create an installer with toolchain from mingw-w64.
It would simplify process for people wanting to test on windows.