While I was at C++ Now this past week I was wanting to play with some of the new C++11 features. The computer that I had was running Windows 7 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2012. While Visual Studio 2012 is a great editor for C++ with excellent syntax highlighting and auto-complete, it is lacking in support for a lot of C++11 features. Among the features that I miss are uniform initialization syntax and initializer_list, and variadic templates. Yes, I know that these are in the November CTP for Visual C++, but that doesn't help me today.
The compilers that most people have easy access to are GCC, Clang, and Visual C++. Given that Visual C++ does not support the language features that I wanted to play with, that was one compiler down. GCC has excellent C++11 support and will have support for the complete standard in version 4.8.1. Clang will have complete C++11 support in version 3.3.
I decided to compile Clang (trunk) using Visual C++ so that I had a compiler that had the features that I wanted to work with. Clang has excellent instructions on how to build it using Visual Studio. I followed the instructions with only a minor hitch. The list of prerequisites includes Python. I installed Python 3.3.2. I had a handful of configuration errors that were resolved by uninstalling Python 3.3.2 and installing Python 2.7.5.
Over all, it was rather easy to build Clang. The instructions were excellent, but a single missing detail (Python version) caused me some headaches.
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