add support for MSVC
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
Research direction
Start with the user manual section that lists supported compilers and determine how compiler support is represented in the CodeQL queries and libraries. Define the MSVC compatibility scope, identify affected checks and tests, and document what passing MSVC coverage would mean before implementing changes.
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Description
are you planning to add support for MSVC compiler? The user manual only mentions clang, gcc and qcc.
- Dominant language
- CodeQL
- Stars
- 227
- Forks
- 82
- Avg merge
- 6d 7h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 9
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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