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How to setup ICC and Bazel on Windows

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#10,390 opened on Dec 9, 2019

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Hi, I setup my bazel environment on Windows, which uses clang by default. I found that CROSSTOOL allows me to set a compiler, but the documentation is very poor on this. Is there any resource available that explains how I can change the default compiler of Bazel to ICC on Windows?

The most promising solution I found is simply setting CC but CC=icc.exe doesn't invoke the compiler as expected and still uses clang. Any help is highly appreciated!

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Investigate the Bazel documentation and GitHub discussions for configuring the ICC compiler on Windows. Look for examples of custom CROSSTOOL or toolchain configurations. Provide a clear guide or update the existing documentation.
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BazelWindows
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