llvm/clang/lldb -devel on Apple Silicon

[Chris Jones]

> On 24 Nov 2020, at 6:02 pm, Michael Dickens <michaelld at macports.org> wrote:
>  
> Very cool! Does this Clang provide Fortran compiling yet? - MLD

Strictly speaking, clang will never support fortran. Flang, is an additional frontend to LLVM that aims to be a production quality fortran compiler for the LLVM ecosystem. I believe Ken has previously said flang will be enabled starting with the llvm-11 ports, but its not quite ready to be used at this point. Certainly is currently far from a feature complete replacement for gcc’s gfortran, but give it time it will likely get there.

Chris

> 
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, at 12:47 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> So the latest build of llvm etc did build through and install on Apple Silicon
>> 
>> That is a milestone of sorts I think.
>> 
>> This allows openmp, and the first alternative compiler to try for failed builds.
>> 
>> I’ll move this into llvm/clang 11 soon, once I finish wrestling with 
>> the github PG.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Ken