[Bug 819670] Review Request: mingw-llvm - MinGW LLVM libraries

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--- Comment #8 from Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> 2012-05-12 18:42:37 EDT ---
The purpose of mingw-llvm is to be able to build applications for Windows that
use the LLVM libraries, e.g., if they want to use the LLVM JIT capabilities. 
Such an app might possibly also be able to emit bitcode or even native code
files, though that isn't what I use it for personally.

The purpose of static libraries is to allow such programs to be built
statically, to avoid having to distribute them with a bunch of DLLs (including
but not limited to the LLVM DLLs).  In other words, exactly the same reason as
for packaging any other mingnn-*-static subpackage.

I don't have any clue what an "llvm.exe" would do, even if it existed, which
AFAIK it doesn't.  Certainly this package doesn't contain one.

The various .exe files that are in this package may or may not be useful to
people that use applications built with mingw-llvm, depending on exactly what
those applications do.  I've had occasion to use a few of them.  I could remove
them from the package, and only include the libraries, but I thought that as
long as the exe files were built and work, there was little advantage to not
packaging them.

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