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There are already problems with building LLVM under VS2005, and it's
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quite old now. Update the documentation to reflect this, and direct
people to use VS2008 or newer.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@144818 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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chandlerc committed Nov 16, 2011
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text. Generator's names are case-sensitive. Example:</p>

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<p><tt>cmake -G "Visual Studio 8 2005" path/to/llvm/source/root</tt></p>
<p><tt>cmake -G "Visual Studio 9 2008" path/to/llvm/source/root</tt></p>
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<p>For a given development platform there can be more than one
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<td>Windows</td>
<td>x86<sup><a href="#pf_1">1</a></sup></td>
<td>Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or higher<sup><a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
<td>Visual Studio 2008 or higher<sup><a href="#pf_4">4</a>,<a href="#pf_5">5</a></sup></td>
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<td>AIX<sup><a href="#pf_3">3</a>,<a href="#pf_4">4</a></sup></td>
<td>PowerPC</td>
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<p>Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio .NET 2005 SP1 is fine.
The LLVM source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume
<p>Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio 2008 is fine. The LLVM
source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume
approximately 3GB.</p>

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<h3><a name="software"><b>Software</b></a></h3>
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<p>You will need Visual Studio .NET 2005 SP1 or higher. The VS2005 SP1
beta and the normal VS2005 still have bugs that are not completely
compatible. Earlier versions of Visual Studio do not support the C++ standard
well enough and will not work.</p>
<p>You will need Visual Studio 2008 or higher. Earlier versions of Visual
Studio have bugs, are not completely compatible, or do not support the C++
standard well enough.</p>

<p>You will also need the <a href="http://www.cmake.org/">CMake</a> build
system since it generates the project files you will use to build with.</p>
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