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VoltLang / Volta

Compiler for the Volt Programming Language
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Distribute the compiler with all dll that are needed #54

Open r-k-o opened 6 years ago

r-k-o commented 6 years ago

hi,

after some time being traveling on business, i try to build the llvm.dll for windows and don't succeed (have real problems with cmake). Is it possible to distribute the compiler with the needed dll's to run it? Thanks in advance

bhelyer commented 5 years ago

Thanks for your interest in Volt.

A windows build is possible/planned, but everything is still in flux and development, so not being able to build it yourself is fairly limiting. A further issue, and I've discussed this with @Wallbraker, is that currently Volta doesn't do well on its own -- it really wants to be invoked by Battery.

I'm not a huge fan of this behaviour -- I like battery well enough, but I know it doesn't work for everyone or their workflow -- I'd like to set up a Standalone build, that will look in its installation folder for runtimes etc. Especially for Windows, but I like distributing such things for all supported platforms (Win64, Lin64, macOS). I'm not sure when I'll get the time to do such a thing, but when I do I will update this issue.