Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] MXE and wclang

[Thomas Pöchtrager]

Am 2014-04-15 17:47, schrieb Tony Theodore:
> 
> On 15 Apr 2014, at 16:11, Nagaev Boris <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> There are great tools MXE and wclang. MXE automates build of windows
>> binaries from Linux, wclang wrapps clang for cross-compilation to
>> Windows. Why not to use them together? Could developers of MXE
>> integrate wclang into MXE?
> 
> Hi Boris,
> 
> wclang looks like overkill if we were going to introduce clang support in 
> MXE. We’d have a specific version to support and predictable paths, so would 
> simply use shell wrappers for the cross-tools (as we do with pkg-config). 
> We’d probably also use the llvm equivalents of binutils and build the runtime 
> from source (it’s not clear how much wclang depends on an existing 
> cross-toolchain).
> 
> From the looks of it, you can probably already use both yourself - with some 
> symlinks and $PATH manipulation. There’s some hard-coded gcc/g++ calls in MXE 
> (particularly test invocations), and we could be better about respecting “CC".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tony
> 

Hi,

wclang uses the mingw toolchain (including its libs, headers, linker,
windres, ...) therefore it should work out of the box.

But I guess porting all packages would be a lot of work and I don't
think its worth the effort.

Another aspect is that the LLVM/Clang team doesn't seem to care a lot
about the mingw target anymore (as they have an MSVC target now - which
is indeed much more important).

Regards,
Thomas Pöchtrager