Closed Bug 1214717 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Support building with Clang

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Platform:
All
Windows 10
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: cocof35serveur, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151012151721
OS: Unspecified → Windows 10
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Mozilla should support building wih Clang on windows in case Visual Studio doesn't work well or things like that...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
This is not realy a duplicate because i don't mean clang-cl i mean clang. Clang-cl use visual studio linker but i mean it could be great to have a second compiler like clang with it's own linker in case visual studio seem to be broken or anythings else.
Resolution: DUPLICATE → INVALID
Visual Studio works fine.  Bug 752004 tracks the work of porting Firefox to clang-cl (which is a cl compatible front-end to clang.)  We have no plans to support the gcc-style clang front-end on Windows.

Note that the LLVM project also has a link.exe compatible linker front-end which can be used instead of the MSVC linker but we haven't started porting to it yet.
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