How to use Clang compiler with MSBuild?

Question

I\'m trying to take a couple of projects normally compiled on Windows with Microsoft C++ and compile them with clang instead.

On the upside, there exists clang-cl.ex

Answer 1

Since Visual Studio 2019 16.2, Microsoft provide an integration of MSbuild and ClangCl. So this can be achieved by:

• Installing the “C++ Clang Tools for Windows” component
• Choosing the "LLVM (clang-cl)” toolset in the IDE

Microsoft's blog post has more information on this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/clang-llvm-support-for-msbuild-projects/