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

[Tony Theodore]

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?

Thanks,

Tony