Re: [boost] [regression runner] Preference libstdc++ vs. libc++

Subject: Re: [boost] [regression runner] Preference libstdc++ vs. libc++
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-08 16:39:35

On 8 March 2017 at 09:34, Edward Diener via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> I installed the "Clang with Microsoft codegen", aka C2/clang, for VS2015
> in order to see what I might need to do to integrate it into Boost PP/VMD.
> I then went looking for documentation in the VS2015 IDE Help for how to use
> it either from the IDE or command line. Absolutely no documentation exists
> within Visual Studio 2015 about it, nor is there any official docs anywhere
> on the web which I could find. I doubt very much whether this is a viable
> option in VS2015 for compiling Boost libraries. I will take a look again
> with VS2017, which I have just downloaded, but considering that no
> documentation for this exists AFAICS I highly doubt whether this Microsoft
> offering, whatever it is, will work with Boost. Call me a skeptic, but if I
> a C++ product is released without documentation, whether from Microsoft or
> anyone else, I have great doubts that it will actually work with C++
> standard code.

 This SO question glosses
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42593423/whats-the-difference-between-clang-with-microsoft-codegen-and-llvm-vs2014>
over the what and why of Clang/C2 (vs Clang/LLVM).

degski