<p>The Visual Studio port at this time is experimental. It is suitable for
use only if you are writing your own compiler front end or otherwise have a
need to dynamically generate machine code. The JIT and interpreter are
- functional, but it is currently not possible to directly generate an
- executable file. You can do so indirectly by using the C back end.</p>
+ functional, but it is currently not possible to generate assembly code which
+ is then assembled into an executable. You can indirectly create executables
+ by using the C back end.</p>
<p>To emphasize, there is no C/C++ front end currently available.
<tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is based on GCC, which cannot be bootstrapped using VC++.
<p>You will need Visual Studio .NET 2003. Earlier versions cannot open the
solution/project files. The VS 2005 beta can, but will migrate these files
to its own format in the process. While it should work with the VS 2005
- beta, there are no guarantees and there is no support for it at this time.</p>
+ beta, there are no guarantees and there is no support for it at this time.
+ It has been reported that VC++ Express also works.</p>
<p>You will also need several open source packages: bison, flex, and sed.
These must be installed in <tt>llvm/win32/tools</tt>. These can be found at