| Issue |
91108
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| Summary |
Provide unified installer for C/C++ tooling for windows.
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| Labels |
new issue
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| Assignees |
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| Reporter |
Rossmaxx
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I appreciate the llvm project for making this awesome compiler and releasing it under open source. I currently use MSVC build tools for compiling C++ code and would like to use clang but I can't for one reason - There's no .exe installer available. I can get it from visual studio but the VS clang support is experimental from what I heard.
I als use mingw from msys2 for working with vscode as integrating msvc build tools with vscode is a pain. Msys2 comes with a different drawback being it's hard to install and update for novice users.
What I'm asking is for the project to release official binary installs with everything needed (compiler, debugger, runtime, sdk, etc) to be consolidated to one package + an "add to path" option in the installer so that one need not fiddle with the system variables on their own.
The motivation for opening this issue came from a friend asking me for an "easy way to install a C compiler". I couldn't suggest any of the methods i did because he didn't want to do anything other than run the code given in the classes.
One suggestion that i have for an implementation is to use the mingw runtime + gcc libc with clang (as using MS sdk might lead to license issues)
Sorry in advance if the issue report ended up being too long.
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