Re: C++11 in LibreOffice

2012/7/17 Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida@gmail.com>:
> On 07/17/2012 05:11 AM, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >   So, as long as we require to build LO with MSVC, we can revisit the
> > question
> > of hard-depending on C++11 in, uhm, let's be optimistic and say 3 years.
> > IOW,
> > we can probably get there faster by ditching backwards ABI compatibility
> > with
> > LO4 and switching to a different compiler for Windows.
>
>
> What I'm curious is how the binaries generated from different compilers
> compare on Windows.  If their performances are more or less comparable, then
> I could care less whether we stick with MSVC or gcc (or clang if it's
> available on Windows).  But if MSVC still produces more optimized binaries,
> then I would be reluctant to support switching to a different compiler
> (though my voice is only one head count, easily overruled by the majority
> votes when it comes down to it).
>
> Kohei

Clang is not directly available as a binary for windows, however they
have a small tutorial how to build it from source at
<http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html#buildWindows>.