[cfe-users] Simple code refuses to compile ...

[Kim Gräsman]

+new list

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Kim Gräsman <kim.grasman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mayuresh,
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in> wrote:
>>
>> I have installed LLVM-3.8.0-r243265-win64 for my Windows 7 Professional
>> 64-bit and tried to compile a simple program called "test.c" (below);
>>
>> int main(void) {
>>     return 0;
>> }
>>
>> The command issued to compile it was; "clang.exe .\test.c" (without quotes).
>> The error message(s) thrown back are;
>> clang.exe: error: unable to execute command: program not executable
>> clang.exe: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
>> invocation)
>
> Assuming you're not using MinGW/Cygwin, the Clang driver is looking
> for Visual Studio's linker, LINK.EXE to generate an executable for the
> program.
>
> Do you have Visual Studio installed? Which version? Have you tried
> `-v` as suggested to see what Clang is trying to do?
>
> - Kim