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llvm-mingw reviews and mentions

• Why after using Mac to do low level development for a week, I switched back to Linux?
  2 projects | dev.to | 22 Apr 2026

  But Autoconf wants a LLVM MinGW toolchain, while the Homebrew MinGW toolchain was only for GCC, and I also had to compile LLVM MinGW myself by using Mstorsjo's LLVM MinGW compiling script which was very and got this working, and surprisingly the entire set of toolchain was only 300MB.

• Using Clang++ and Make natively on Windows
  1 project | dev.to | 7 Mar 2025
• Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2024

  https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw :

  > Address Sanitizer and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer, LLVM Control Flow Guard -mguard=cf ; i686, x86_64, armv7 and arm64

• Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
• Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why?
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2023

  > Doing Python with a C plugin, or just compiling a command line C/C++ isn't really systems programming.

  I care about a minimal set of tools in order to compile C/C++ programs. thats offered by:

  https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw/releases

  and also MSYS2, and even the Zig C compiler. all less than 200 MB. meanwhile Visual Studio installing about 10 GB worth. If Microsoft can offer a similar experience then I am interested.

• Clang compiler for Windows 10 gives this error
  1 project | /r/C_Programming | 2 Jul 2023

  Pick a community-supported Clang-based Mingw-w64 distribution.

• My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things your modern iPhone still can't do
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2023

  > AFAIK there is no native GCC compiler for Windows

  might want to check your facts before spouting nonsense. there is, and has been for many, many years. more than one in fact:

  https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

  https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-gcc

• Release candidate: Godot 4.0 RC 5 (Yes, the pace is picking up!)
  3 projects | /r/godot | 24 Feb 2023

  MinGW is notoriously slow to link compared to MSVC, unless using llvm-mingw with the link=lld SCons option. If using MSVC, make sure to use 2022 or at least 2019 if possible – recent linkers tend to be faster than older versions.

• Toolchain for cross-compiling DLL to windows/arm64
  1 project | /r/golang | 22 Nov 2022

  GCC doesn't support windows/arm64, but you should be able to do it with LLVM. I've never gotten it to work myself, but should be able to supply a cross toolchain: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

• Ask HN: Programming Without a Build System?
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2022

  Visual Studio is a bloated mess, and has been for many years. Its at least 10 times larger than other options, such as MinGW-LLVM:

  https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

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