[cfe-dev] Running Tool In VS2015

[Kim Gräsman via cfe-dev]

Hi Daniel,

Looks like you could work around it by building to a bin/
subdirectory, i.e. C:\MyTool\Release\bin instead of just
C:\MyTool\Release. That way the (presumably-buggy) -resource-dir will
at least point to the right path.

- Kim

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Daniel Dilts via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> When building my tool against Clang 3.8.0 and running it in VS2013 it worked
> perfectly (once I started building the clang-headers project).
>
> Along comes VS2015 and I have to upgrade to Clang 3.9.0 since the VS2015
> headers now use an intrinsic that wasn't supported prior to 3.9.0.  This
> unexpectedly broke my tool and caused the tool to generate the following new
> warning:
>
> warning : unknown argument ignored in clang-cl:
> '-resource-dir=C:\MyTool\Release\..\lib\clang\3.9.0'
>
> This warning seems odd to me, since the -resource-dir argument is added by
> Clang.  Also, it references the parent directory of the directory that the
> clang-headers project copies necessary include files to.
>
> As I have been experimenting with getting my tool to work again it has
> become evident that somewhere between 3.8.0 and 3.9.0 the directory where
> the clang-headers project copies header file to has been removed from the
> set of include directories for a tool (at least on Windows...).  By adding
> -IC:\MyTool\Release\..\lib\clang\3.9.0\include to my command line I have
> been able to get my tool to work again.
>
> Does anyone know why Clang was changed so that this directory is no longer
> included by default?  Also, is there some other fix that I am missing?
>
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