Re: Fwd: RE: C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833)
"Eric S. Raymond" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.devel |
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| Organization | Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs |
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Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>: > On 03/22/18 15:56, Keith Mendoza wrote: > >Looking into using clang on Windows might be worth the effort to get > >net-snmp code caught up to C99. Google Chrome now uses clang to > >compile in Windows: > >http://blog.llvm.org/2018/03/clang-is-now-used-to-build-chrome-for.html > > We do not only need a compiler on Windows but also the Windows API header > files, e.g. for building the winExtDLL module. Microsoft owns the copyright > on the Windows API header files. Does clang for Windows include Windows > header files? I think MinGW comes with a clean-room rewrite of the Windows > header files to avoid copyright issues. See also > http://mingw.org/history. This article https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/chrome-on-windows-ditches-microsofts-compiler-now-uses-clang/ suggests the problem may have been solved, or nearly so. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot