LLVM compilation

[Ricardo Filipe]

2010/10/12 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Charles Davis <cdavis at mymail.mines.edu> wrote:
>> On 10/11/10 8:54 AM, Jeff Cook wrote:
>>> Just wondering if anyone has experimented building WINE with LLVM
>>> instead of GCC.
>> I have. It's how I got involved in LLVM in the first place :). My very
>> first post to cfe-dev (the Clang development mailing list) was, in fact,
>> asking about building Wine with Clang.
>>> If so, what results were gotten?
>> After I fixed Clang (yes, I fixed Clang; I even have commit access to
>> their repository), it was able to build Wine, but the resulting Wine
>> didn't behave quite right compared to GCC-compiled Wine. Clang and LLVM
>> have come a long way since then--this was about a year ago, just so you
>> know--so I'm going to try again right now.
>>
>> You can ask Austin English, too. He builds Wine with Clang and sends
>> patches to fix the warnings Clang reports.
>>> My understanding is that WINE tries hard
>>> to be pretty portable and non-GCC-specific, so I would expect good
>>> results...
>
> Charles would be the one to thank for most of the fixes (to Clang and
> Wine). Henri Verbeet and Ricardo Filipe sent quite a few patches as
> well. All of them can be found here:
>
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=llvm|clang&sr=1
>
> For its current status, my test scripts builds wine daily with gcc and
> clang and submits test results. You can compare them here (for today's
> results):
> http://test.winehq.org/data/9d18f10a0d1f2d39f6f47fd4b0f439e9fffd20b2/index_Wine.html
>
> look for 'ae-ub1004' for the plain gcc versus 'ae-ub1004-clang' for
> clang. Currently, gcc fails 8 tests for me, clang fails 15.
>
> --
> -Austin
>
>
>

to be clear, my patches and henri's were mostly cleanups and wine bug
fixes found with clang's analysis tool.
not really fixes to build with llvm/clang.