[libcxx-commits] [libcxx] [libcxx]CMake Condition for Clang with MSVC frontend being incorrect (PR #194258)

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Author: cqwrteur (trcrsired)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

Try to deal with issue #<!-- -->190257 

The code assumes CMAKE_CXX_SIMULATE_ID begin always clang-cl which is untrue because we can use clang --target=${cpu}-windows-msvc.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/194258.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) libcxx/CMakeLists.txt (+1-1) 


``````````diff
diff --git a/libcxx/CMakeLists.txt b/libcxx/CMakeLists.txt
index 845240d1b894c..8562fa9f90ae2 100644
--- a/libcxx/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/libcxx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ MACRO_ENSURE_OUT_OF_SOURCE_BUILD(
  "${PROJECT_NAME} requires an out of source build. Please create a separate
  build directory and run 'cmake /path/to/${PROJECT_NAME} [options]' there."
  )
-if("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang" AND "${CMAKE_CXX_SIMULATE_ID}" STREQUAL "MSVC")
+if("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang" AND "${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT}" STREQUAL "MSVC")
   message(STATUS "Configuring for clang-cl")
   set(LIBCXX_TARGETING_CLANG_CL ON)
 endif()

``````````

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/194258


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