Is there a pre-built clang library for Windows? [closed]

Question

I am developing a tool using the clang library on Linux and I would like to port this tool to Windows.

On Linux, I can install Clang from the LLVM repositories using apt-get clang-6.0-dev and simply link my tool with -lclang. I do not need to compile LLVM and Clang myself.

Is there a way to do something similar on Windows, or do I need to compile the Clang library myself?

All of the Clang-related posts I could find are about using clang as a tool, not as a library.

I have installed the pre-build executables for Clang and LLVM from the LLVM website, and these work nicely in combination with mingw. However, the download for Windows does not seem to include the Clang library as a separate file (DLL), and linking with -lclang results in a linker error.

If there is no pre-built library for Windows, what is the best way to proceed, preferably using mingw and not MSVC?

Answer 1

There are pre-built LLVM/clang binaries on Zig's github page:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Building-Zig-on-Windows

You can find libclang.dll in the bin folder.

The currently available versions are:

• llvm+clang-6.0.0-win64-msvc-release.tar.xz
• llvm+clang-7.0.0-win64-msvc-release.tar.xz
• llvm+clang-8.0.0-win64-msvc-release.tar.xz
• llvm+clang-9.0.0-win64-msvc-release.tar.xz
• llvm+clang+lld-10.0.0-x86_64-windows-msvc-release-mt.tar.xz

There are also detailed build instructions, here.