[cfe-users] Compiling for Linux (with Visual Studio and Clang)

[Robinson, Paul via cfe-users]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2020 8:48 AM
> To: Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>
> Cc: John Emmas <john at creativepost.co.uk>; Robinson, Paul
> <paul.robinson at sony.com>; via cfe-users <cfe-users at lists.llvm.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfe-users] Compiling for Linux (with Visual Studio and
> Clang)
> 
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 4:13 AM Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know anyone that is cross compiling from windows to linux using
> visual studio and clang right now. It doesn't mean it can't work, just
> that it's not easy to point you at an example unfortunately.
> >
> > +Robinson, Paul as someone that might know others that are.
> > +Aaron Ballman also.
> >
> > You can also try asking on either irc or discord and see if anyone there
> can help.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have any experience in this area and I don't
> know anyone who's tried that. It seems like it should be plausible,
> but you may be breaking new ground.
> 
> ~Aaron

There is, or was, an open-source plugin to drive Clang from VS in native
mode; if that still exists it might be a decent starting point.

The Sony toolkit for PS4 uses Visual Studio to drive clang, a proprietary
linker, and proprietary debugger for cross-building and debugging.  Also
some other tools IIRC.  We use a VS plugin to make this all work smoothly, 
although I don't know any details about it.  This is to say it's all
possible, although like everyone else I'm not aware of any worked example
targeting Linux.
--paulr

> 
> >
> > -eric
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 12:00 AM John Emmas via cfe-users <cfe-
> users at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 04/08/2020 14:46, John Emmas wrote:
> >> > I read somewhere that the clang devs and Microsoft were collaborating
> >> > to make Visual Studio compatible with clang.
> >> >
> >> > So what's the situation if I want to compile some C++ code for Linux?
> >> > [...]  Is there a Linux version of Visual Studio available now?  Or
> >> > does it work by cross-compiling from VS (in Windows) somehow?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Sorry guys... do I need to direct this question to the developers
> >> mailing list - rather than users?
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