Retire VS2015 Support
As proposed here: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-June/133147.html
This patch raises the minimum supported version to build LLVM/Clang to Visual Studio 2017.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64326
llvm-svn: 365452
diff --git a/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst b/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst
index 524a3c2..742c7b9 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
* Clang 3.1
* Apple Clang 3.1
* GCC 4.8
-* Visual Studio 2015 (Update 3)
+* Visual Studio 2017
Anything older than these toolchains *may* work, but will require forcing the
build system with a special option and is not really a supported host platform.
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@
This section mostly applies to Linux and older BSDs. On macOS, you should
have a sufficiently modern Xcode, or you will likely need to upgrade until you
do. Windows does not have a "system compiler", so you must install either Visual
-Studio 2015 or a recent version of mingw64. FreeBSD 10.0 and newer have a modern
+Studio 2017 or a recent version of mingw64. FreeBSD 10.0 and newer have a modern
Clang as the system compiler.
However, some Linux distributions and some other or older BSDs sometimes have
diff --git a/llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.rst b/llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.rst
index a4ff2b8..7507f97 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/GettingStartedVS.rst
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@
Hardware
--------
-Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio 2015 is fine. The LLVM
+Any system that can adequately run Visual Studio 2017 is fine. The LLVM
source tree and object files, libraries and executables will consume
approximately 3GB.
Software
--------
-You will need Visual Studio 2015 or higher, with the latest Update installed.
+You will need Visual Studio 2017 or higher, with the latest Update installed.
You will also need the `CMake <http://www.cmake.org/>`_ build system since it
generates the project files you will use to build with.
diff --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 7942718..4ad4c94 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@
pointee type. In the next release we intend to make this parameter
mandatory in preparation for opaque pointer types.
+Changes to building LLVM
+------------------------
+
+* Building LLVM with Visual Studio now requires version 2017 or later.
+
+
Changes to the ARM Backend
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