[cfe-dev] Link error in Clang Visual studio 2008

[Francois Pichet]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Surinder <surifilms at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have compiled llvm on Windows Visual Studio 2008.  The project builds
> successfully.  However, on executing clang to compile a simple hello world C
> program, I get following link error. (I had to add C:\Documents and
> Settings\suri\llvm\bin\Debug into window path to invoke clang ).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> End of search list.
>  "link.exe" -out:a.out -defaultlib:libcmt -nologo
> C:/DOCUME~1/suri/LOCALS~1/Temp
> /cc-000000.o
> clang: error: unable to execute command: program not executable
> clang: error: linker command failed due to signal 1 (use -v to see
> invocation)


clang is trying to call link.exe from the msvc toolchain. link.exe is
not in your PATH environment.
Please note that using clang on Windows with MSVC is experimental.