Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] new package: libxml++

[Matthias Gehre]

2011/11/25 Tony Theodore <address@hidden>:
> On 25 November 2011 23:29, Matthias Gehre <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 2011/11/25 Volker Grabsch <address@hidden>:
>>> Matthias Gehre schrieb:
>>>> 2011/11/23 René Berber <address@hidden>:
>>>> > On 20 Nov 2011 21:04:41, Matthias Gehre wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Okey, here you go. I also attached llvm as a bonus.
>>>> >
>>>> > Any comments about the details?
>>>>
>>>> I'm not using llvm as a replacement for gcc, I'm just using its lib in
>>>> my project to implement a JIT compiler.
>>>
>>> Sorry for the nitpicking, but I'd like to make
>>> things clear.
>>>
>>> The src/llvm.mk file seems to build and install the
>>> whole LLVM project. What exactly do we get here?
>>>
>>> * A cross compiled LLVM Windows binary, i.e. a compiler
>>>  that runs under Windows?
>>>
>>> * An LLVM cross compiler?
>>>
>>> * Something else?
>>>
>>> If there's useless stuff being built and installed,
>>> can we add additional argument to the "cmake" call
>>> or the "make" call to avoid building too much useless
>>> stuff?
>>>
>>> Or is LLVM so small and build so fast that this
>>> would not make a difference anyway?
>> I link to various llvm libs, which let me generate compiled code on
>> the fly (JIT).
>> I do not use any binaries generated by that llvm.mk.
>>
>> The current llvm.mk generates the libs that I need. Not installing the 
>> binaries
>> would not hurt me, but the gain is not visible to me either. Therefore
>> I did not investigate
>> what parts exactly could be left out.
>>
>> Maybe someone would like to use the generate binaries to compile things
>> on win32? (for win32, it's not crosscompiler I think)
>>
>> And stripping all binaries away isn't always the best thing to do. For 
>> example
>> the glib package does not install gspawn-helper.exe by default, which
>> is needed on win32
>> to use g_spawn_* functionality.
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> I've disabled the *exe build, other processor targets, and added a
> prefixed link to llvm-config:
>
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/ee362456a290
>
> Can you check if this works for your project?

Works, thanks.