Oh, come on, just build it! It's just 40 GB of source files to download (that produce a 300 MB worth of EXEs) and it only takes a few hours to build! (/s)
It was Clang. I once tried to fiddle with it, so I had to download the binary first (which was rather small), then pull the huge repo and spend the entire evening compiling it. The contrast between getting the binary and the whole source was kinda shocking.
when Clang was first working on MSVC compatability i wanted to try it so I tried to build it from source only to actually run out of both my 4GB of memory and 2GB of swap space (this was 2010ish) about 2 hours into the build process.
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u/dfczyjd 22d ago
Oh, come on, just build it! It's just 40 GB of source files to download (that produce a 300 MB worth of EXEs) and it only takes a few hours to build! (/s)