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Add support for VS2015 Clang/C2 projects

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#212 opened on Jun 30, 2016

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Description

Please add support for generating VS2015 projects that use "Clang with Microsoft CodeGen" (aka Clang/C2) out-of-the-box. (here and here for more info).

Right now, setting the "platform toolset" requires to either open each project individually and set "Configuration Properties" -> "General" -> "Platform toolset" to "Clang with Microsoft CodeGen" (eg. configuration window) or to patch the generated .vcxproj files to set <PlatformToolset>v140_clang_3_7</PlatformToolset>.

Using Clang/C2 also requires:

  • changing all compiler options ("Additional Options") to clang's "-option" style (as opposed to CL's "/option" style).
  • changing the "Debug Information Format" to DWARF2 (-g2 -gdwarf-2)
  • changing the "Warning Level" to either -W0 or -Wall.

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Research direction
Investigate GENie's VS2015 project generation code and add support for Clang/C2 platform toolset, including compiler option conversion and debug format changes.
Tech stack
ccpp
Domain
build system
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C++Visual Studio
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