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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: GCC vs Clang
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:06:44 -0700
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 10/08/2016 19:49, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> Has it not occurred to you that there might be a better place to
>> find out?  http://clang.llvm.org/ is likely to be a good starting
>> point.
>
> I've looked at some of it. The documentation is poor. It thinks people 
> have an interest in LLVM and the rest, or building from scratch; they 
> haven't!
>
> They just want another C compiler to install for Windows as an 
> alternative to the rest, and one that is ready to use.
>
> But clang as provided isn't that. Fine, but they haven't bothered to 
> point that out anywhere, leaving it to users to waste time finding these 
> things out for themselves.
>
> I think it took me a couple of years to find out, as it was silently 
> piggy-backing itself onto my mingw installation!

I believe I mentioned the mailing lists.  One of them would probably be
a good place to discuss the difficulties of installing clang on Windows.

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