[Python-ideas] Clang in distutils TAKE 2

[Ryan]

I tried Clang, though. It worked for me. Version 3.2. Corresponds to GCC 4.2(I think?). It's more mature than it seems. Plus, the errors beat GCC's by about 10x. Even with GCC 4.7.

Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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