[cfe-dev] MSVC compatible driver proposal

[Kim Gräsman]

Thanks, Chandler!

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> wrote:
>
> Absolutely. Note that there is probably some work to do on the tooling layer
> to get all of this to work -- we haven't tested it that I know -- so it
> might be something that would be good to play with and post patches if you
> hit issues.

I help maintain IWYU, and we're not yet using the tooling library, but
this sounds like a really good reason to start doing so. I'll see
whether we can get that far before the cl driver stuff settles.

>> I'm curious, because it should be pretty easy to build a
>> compile_commands.json from Visual Studio project files, and that in
>> turn would enable tools to run on MSVC-ish code with or without CMake.
>
> This would be *wonderful*. Especially if it could be effectively integrated
> with visual studio itself so that it is updated nicely.

Yeah, it sounds like it would open the world of Clang tools to a lot
more build systems!

- Kim