Re: [boost] clang-win, again

Subject: Re: [boost] clang-win, again
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-26 14:34:17

Edward Diener wrote:

> I have rued the day I pushed clang-win.jam from someone elses posting 
> because I wanted to test clang under Windows and it seemed to work. Mainly 
> because I am not knowledgeable enough with bjam to "fix" clang-win.jam and 
> no one else was ever interested in doing so.

It would have been nice if clang-cl.exe had an option to invoke the msvc 
tools it obviously knows how to find, so that we could call f.ex. 
"clang-cl.exe /lib <options>" and have it do the right thing for us.

Unfortunately, it doesn't. It does have /link which can call link.exe for 
us, but this only works for shared libraries.

Perhaps we can capture the output of

    clang-cl.exe -### foo.obj /link

and extract the path to link.exe from there...