[cfe-dev] Toolset for clang in Windows under Boost

[Edward Diener]

On 9/23/2010 10:16 AM, Douglas Gregor wrote:
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> On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
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>> On 9/22/2010 9:55 PM, Sebastian Redl wrote:
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>>> On Sep 22, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
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>>>> Then I will use the MingW headers when compiling clang. But I can not
>>>> believe that I would have had to build clang with MingW to do that.
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>>> You don't have to. But it sets its default header search paths depending
>>> on the compiler you use to compile it,
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>> That is a real surprise. I guess it was done to make things easier for
>> the end-user. I found nothing about this in the documentation.
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> It wouldn't be a surprise if Clang "just worked" on Visual Studio's headers. Clang would emulate the compiler you use, as a drop-in replacement.
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> However,  Windows support in general is a work-in-progress, requiring a number of Microsoft-specific extensions and emulating a number of Microsoft bugs and quirks. People are working on it, but it's not going to work seamlessly on Windows for quite a while.

OK, I will wait to try out clang on Windows but will use it on Linux 
instead. I do understand that VC++'s header files have lots of Microsoft 
extensions and it is unreasonable to assume that clang should easily 
support those extensions since its primary focus is in supporting the C 
and C++ standards. Thanks !