[tor-bugs] #21777 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Investigate cross-compiling Tor Browser for Windows with clang-cl

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#21777: Investigate cross-compiling Tor Browser for Windows with clang-cl
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  project                              |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, ff59-esr,                   |  Actual Points:
  GeorgKoppen201712, TorBrowserTeam201712        |
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 Replying to [comment:2 gk]:
 > The Google people made this work, so we have an alternative road to the
 mingw-w64/clang setup we could try.
 from Martin:
 > Yes, the clang/llvm based toolchain is much less mature in all aspects,
 so
 > I wouldn't recommend it unless you have interest in it for another
 reason
 > (my reason is support for windows on non-x86 platforms).

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