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diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.html b/docs/GettingStarted.html index b3fbb33..9d06077 100644 --- a/docs/GettingStarted.html +++ b/docs/GettingStarted.html @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ software you will need.</p> <tr> <td>Windows</td> <td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td> - <td>Visual Studio .NET<sup><a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td> + <td>Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or higher<sup><a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td> <tr> <td>AIX<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_4">4</a></sup></td> <td>PowerPC</td> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ software you will need.</p> up</a></li> <li><a name="pf_2">Code generation supported for 32-bit ABI only</a></li> <li><a name="pf_3">No native code generation</a></li> -<li><a name="pf_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools don't link</a></li> +<li><a name="pf_4">Build is not complete: one or more tools do not link or function</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> <a href="http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/">Download</a> and install diff --git a/docs/GettingStartedVS.html b/docs/GettingStartedVS.html index a09559e..7a6b417 100644 --- a/docs/GettingStartedVS.html +++ b/docs/GettingStartedVS.html @@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ <p>The LLVM test suite cannot be run on the Visual Studio port at this time.</p> - <p>Most of the tools build and work. <tt>llvm-db</tt> does not build at this - time. <tt>bugpoint</tt> does build, but does not work. + <p>Most of the tools build and work. <tt>bugpoint</tt> does build, but does + not work. The other tools 'should' work, but have not been fully tested.</p> <p>Additional information about the LLVM directory structure and tool chain can be found on the main <a href="GettingStarted.html">Getting Started</a> - page.</P> + page.</p> </div> @@ -108,11 +108,38 @@ <li><tt>cd llvm</tt></li> </ol></li> </ul></li> + + <li> Use <a href="http://www.cmake.org/">CMake</a> to generate up-to-date + project files: + <ul><li>This step is currently optional as LLVM does still come with a + normal Visual Studio solution file, but it is not always kept up-to-date + and will soon be deprecated in favor of the multi-platform generator + CMake.</li> + <li>If CMake is installed then the most simple way is to just start the + CMake GUI, select the directory where you have LLVM extracted to, and + the default options should all be fine. The one option you may really + want to change, regardless of anything else, might be the + CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX setting to select a directory to INSTALL to once + compiling is complete.</li> + <li>If you use CMake to generate the Visual Studio solution and project + files, then the Solution will have a few extra options compared to the + current included one. The projects may still be built individually, but + to build them all do not just select all of them in batch build (as some + are meant as configuration projects), but rather select and build just + the ALL_BUILD project to build everything, or the INSTALL project, which + first builds the ALL_BUILD project, then installs the LLVM headers, libs, + and other useful things to the directory set by the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX + setting when you first configured CMake.</li> + </ul> + </li> <li>Start Visual Studio - <ol> - <li>Simply double click on the solution file <tt>llvm/win32/llvm.sln</tt>. - </li> + <ul> + <li>If you did not use CMake, then simply double click on the solution + file <tt>llvm/win32/llvm.sln</tt>.</li> + <li>If you used CMake, then the directory you created the project files, + the root directory will have an <tt>llvm.sln</tt> file, just + double-click on that to open Visual Studio.</li> </ol></li> <li>Build the LLVM Suite: @@ -151,8 +178,8 @@ changes are continually making the VS support better.</p> <div class="doc_text"> - <p>Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio .NET 2003 is fine. The - LLVM source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume + <p>Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio .NET 2005 SP1 is fine. + The LLVM source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume approximately 3GB.</p> </div> @@ -161,11 +188,15 @@ changes are continually making the VS support better.</p> <div class="doc_subsection"><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></div> <div class="doc_text"> - <p>You will need Visual Studio .NET 2003. Earlier versions cannot open the - solution/project files. The VS 2005 beta can, but will migrate these files - to its own format in the process. While it should work with the VS 2005 - beta, there are no guarantees and there is no support for it at this time. - It has been reported that VC++ Express also works.</p> + <p>You will need Visual Studio .NET 2005 SP1 or higher. The VS2005 SP1 + beta and the normal VS2005 still have bugs that are not completely + compatible. VS2003 would work except (at last check) it has a bug with + friend classes that you can work-around with some minor code rewriting + (and please submit a patch if you do). Earlier versions of Visual Studio + do not support the C++ standard well enough and will not work.</p> + + <p>You will also need the <a href="http://www.cmake.org/">CMake</a> build + system since it generates the project files you will use to build with.</p> <p>If you plan to modify any .y or .l files, you will need to have bison and/or flex installed where Visual Studio can find them. Otherwise, you do |