[cfe-dev] Multiple versions of VS

[Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev]

Yes, that should work.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Ammarguellat, Zahira
<zahira.ammarguellat at intel.com> wrote:
> Or in other words can I compile with clang (built with VS2015/VS2017 soon for instance) using VS2013/VS2015 headers?
>
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> From: Ammarguellat, Zahira
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> Subject: RE: Multiple versions of VS
>
> Hans, Reid,
>
> Sorry I was a bit unclear in my message. What I meant to say is when I generate a clang binary, can I compile with this binary, code, using older versions of VS?
> Some features need use of runtime libraries (size operator delete, thread_local)?
>
> Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hwennborg at google.com [mailto:hwennborg at google.com] On Behalf Of Hans Wennborg
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 1:06 PM
> To: Ammarguellat, Zahira <zahira.ammarguellat at intel.com>
> Cc: cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Subject: Re: Multiple versions of VS
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Ammarguellat, Zahira via cfe-commits
>> <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>> Is there any plan from the community to have clang support multiple
>>> versions of VS?
>>
>> What kind of support to you mean?
>>
>> Do you mean the Visual Studio integration, or Clang's ability to find
>> the standard library, linker, etc. of a VS installation?
>
> Oh, I see in http://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32059, you mean support for compiling clang itself?
>
> There are no plans to support compiling Clang with earlier versions of VS, as it doesn't support all the C++ features that Clang uses.