[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:  closed
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, ff60-esr,                   |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam201803, GeorgKoppen201804        |
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Changes (by gk):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed


Comment:

 I think this investigation is done. As I said in comment:10
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1390583 has the details and
 in general cross-compiling Firefox with clang/mingw-w64 is working for our
 purposes. For details on how to set this toolchain up, see:
 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2018-March/000825.html.

 We don't plan to switch to clang/mingw-w64 for Tor Browser 8 as there are
 likely some timeconsuming loose ends like reproducibility, DEP+ASLR etc.
 support and others. The plan is to start to work on this for Tor Browser
 8.5.

 This includes the missing magic to compile Stylo as well. That work in
 particular will be done in
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1390583.

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