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

My version of Igor's solution, it's briefer:

cl() {
  tmpfile="/tmp/tmp$$.bat"
  echo "@echo off" > $tmpfile
  echo "call \"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat\" >NUL:" >> $tmpfile
  echo "bash -c \"cl %*\"" >> $tmpfile
  cmd /c `cygpath -m "$tmpfile"` "$@"
  status=$?
  rm -f $tmpfile
  return $status
}

it's a pity that vcvars64.bat needs to be called repetitively.