[cfe-dev] Linking in clang on Windows

[Edward Diener]

On 10/14/2013 12:21 PM, Reid Kleckner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Edward Diener
> <eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com
> <mailto:eldlistmailingz at tropicsoft.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/9/2013 9:22 PM, Hans Wennborg wrote:
>
>         On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Hans Wennborg
>         <hans at chromium.org
>         <mailto:hans at chromium.org>> wrote:
>
>             On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Edward Diener
>
>                 BTW is there any documentation anywhere on a web page
>                 about running clang on
>                 Windows ?
>
>
>             I have a patch that adds documentation about clang-cl. It
>             should land today.
>
>
>         Here are the docs I was referring to:
>         http://clang.llvm.org/docs/__UsersManual.html#clang-cl
>         <http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#clang-cl>
>
>
>     With what version of VC++ is clang in Windows trying to be
>     compatible ? Is it whatever version is used to build clang from the
>     Visual Studio IDE ?
>
>
> We haven't found any major language ABI incompatibilities between 2010,
> 2012, and 2013 yet, so we haven't had to add any version specific logic.
>   If we discover an incompatibility and deem it important enough to
> implement both versions, then we'll probably use -fmsc-version to decide
> which behavior the user gets.

Since clang sets _MSC_VER to be the same as VC++ 11 I will test out with 
that under Boost if I can.