As raised here: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-November/153881.html
Now that VS2022 is on general release, LLVM is expected to build on VS2017, VS2019 and VS2022, which is proving hazardous to maintain due to changes in behaviour including preprocessor and constexpr changes. Plus of the few developers that work with VS, many have already moved to VS2019/22.
This patch proposes to raise the minimum supported version to VS2019 (16.x) - I've made the hard limit 16.0 or later, with the soft limit VS2019 16.7 - older versions of VS2019 are "allowed" (at your own risk) via the LLVM_FORCE_USE_OLD_TOOLCHAIN cmake flag.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114639
Installing the Unix tools on Windows is quite painful. To make things easier,
I explained how to use a package manager or a Docker image.
Note: This still uses the GNUWin tools as explained on this page. Once we
replace these with something else, we would also need to update the
installation commands.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97387
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39737
This is the second attempt to commit this. The test was broken on Linux in the first attempt.
llvm-svn: 318560
By default, CMake uses a 32-bit toolchain, even when on a 64-bit platform targeting a 64-bit build. However, due to the size of the binaries involved, this can cause linker instabilities (such as the linker running out of memory). Guide people to the correct solution to get CMake to use the native toolchain.
llvm-svn: 303912
Watching new contributors trying to build LLVM on Windows, one of the
very common failure modes was getting a version of Visual Studio
that did not have a C++ compiler for CMake to put up. Trying to create
a C++ project in Visual Studio will cause Visual Studio to go and
download the C++ tools.
llvm-svn: 260049
We were already requiring 2.5, which meant that people on old linux distros
had to upgrade anyway.
Requiring python 2.6 will make supporting 3.X easier as we can use the 3.X
exception syntax.
According to the discussion on llvmdev, there is not much value is requiring
just 2.6, we may as well just require 2.7.
llvm-svn: 224129
:doc:`...` and :ref:`...` links help Sphinx keep track the dependencies
between documents and ensure that they are not pointing to nowhere.
Raw HTML links work just fine and are easier for people less familiar
with reST/Sphinx. They are easy to change over to the :doc:/:ref: style
after the fact so this is not a problem.
This commit doesn't fix all of them.
llvm-svn: 205792
Before we learned about :doc:, we used :ref: and put a dummy link at the
top of each page. Don't do that anymore.
This fixes PR14891 as a special case.
llvm-svn: 172162
Simon Pilgrim