[Python-ideas] Clang in distutils TAKE 2

[Eli Bendersky]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 8/25/2013 2:03 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Ryan <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>
>  My idea is to put Clang as a compiler for building Python extensions on
>>> Windows. i.e. I would be able to do this:
>>>
>>> C:\my-python-extension> python setup.py build -c clang
>>>
>>
> Do clang/llvm really work on Windows yet? None of these pages even mention
> the work.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Clang<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang>
> http://clang.llvm.org/
> http://www.llvm.org/
>
> and there does not seem to be Windows binaries.
>
>
Do the best of my knowledge, Clang doen't produce MSVC ABI binaries on
Windows at this time. Isn't this a requirement for the official Python
build?

Eli
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