[Ecls-list] Packing LLVM with ECL?

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Marko Kocić <marko.kocic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/18 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>:
>> Has anybody thought about it? Matlab does it. It would make ECL be
>> able to use COMPILE and COMPILE file even without a Microsoft Visual
>> C++ or Mingw32 behind and would facilitate standalone binary
>> distributions.
>
> You mean to include LLVM.dll or something, which will be used instead gcc/msvc?
> That means ecl binary distribution will really be standalone.
> Sounds cool.

Well, Matlab used to distribute the LLVM C compiler, together with the
C library or DLL from LLVM. It was very minimalistic, but standalone.
I think the license is liberal enough that it can be done.

Juanjo

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