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Clarify inability to generate assembly, and note that VC++ Express works. 

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Jeff Cohen 2005-03-08 03:56:50 +00:00
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<p>The Visual Studio port at this time is experimental. It is suitable for
use only if you are writing your own compiler front end or otherwise have a
need to dynamically generate machine code. The JIT and interpreter are
functional, but it is currently not possible to directly generate an
executable file. You can do so indirectly by using the C back end.</p>
functional, but it is currently not possible to generate assembly code which
is then assembled into an executable. You can indirectly create executables
by using the C back end.</p>
<p>To emphasize, there is no C/C++ front end currently available.
<tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is based on GCC, which cannot be bootstrapped using VC++.
@ -166,7 +167,8 @@ progress has been made since the 1.4 release.</p>
<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.</p>
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 also need several open source packages: bison, flex, and sed.
These must be installed in <tt>llvm/win32/tools</tt>. These can be found at