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authorChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2006-07-21 00:06:27 +0000
committerChris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>2006-07-21 00:06:27 +0000
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Add some notes about mingw, patch contributed by Anton Korobeynikov.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@29238 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -239,12 +239,12 @@ software you will need.</p>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cygwin/Win32</td>
- <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_8">8</a></sup></td>
<td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MinGW/Win32</td>
- <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a></sup></td>
+ <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a>,<a href="#pf_6">6</a>,<a href="#pf_8">8</a></sup></td>
<td>GCC 3.4.X, binutils 2.15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
@@ -306,9 +306,15 @@ up</a></li>
<li><a name="pf_5">The GCC-based C/C++ frontend does not build</a></li>
<li><a name="pf_6">The port is done using the MSYS shell.
<a href="http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/">Download</a> and install
-bison (excl. M4.exe) and flex in that order. Build binutils-2.15 from source,
-if necessary.</li>
+bison (excl. M4.exe) and flex in that order. Build binutils-2.15 from source,
+if necessary. Bison & flex can be also grabbed from GNUWin32 sf.net project</li>
<li><a name="pf_7">Native code generation exists but is not complete.</a></li>
+<li><a name="pf_8">Binutils up to post-2.17 has bug in bfd/cofflink.c
+ preventing LLVM from building correctly. Several workarounds have been
+ introduced into LLVM build system, but the bug can occur anytime in the
+ future. It's highly recommended to rebuild your current binutils with the
+ patch from <a href="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2659">
+ Binutils bugzilla</a>, if it's wasn't already applied. </a></li>
</ol>
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