Invoking cl.exe (MSVC compiler) in Cygwin shell

Question

I\'m heavily using Cygwin (with PuTTY shell). But, it\'s quite tricky to invoke cl.exe (that is, the Visual C++ compiler toolchain) in the Cygwin Bash shell. R

Answer 1

I actually used JesperE answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/374411/380247 (that allows you to switch between VS versions) but found a way not to create temporary bat file. So result is much simpler.

function run_in_vs_env
{
    eval vssetup="\$$1\\vsvars32.bat"
    cmd /Q /C call "$vssetup" "&&" "${@:2}"
}

function run_vs11
{
    run_in_vs_env VS110COMNTOOLS "$@"
}

function run_vs10
{
    run_in_vs_env VS100COMNTOOLS "$@"
}

I suggest to add these lines to your .bash_functions or something similar and export these functions there. This will allow you to use functions in your bash scripts.

export -f run_in_vs_env
export -f run_vs11
export -f run_vs10

Then you should be able to do:

run_vs11 cl