

The “Desktop development with C++” workload with the Visual Studio installer now includes full support for targeting Clang/LLVM based toolsets. Installing Clang/LLVM for use with Visual Studio Please try out the preview and let us know what is working well and what isn’t. If you are developing on Windows and targeting Clang, we hope to make Visual Studio the best IDE for that job. If you are not familiar with Visual Studio’s CMake, support check out how to get started. If you use MSBuild projects, however, don’t worry.

Visual Studio 2019 includes out of the box support for editing, building, and debugging CMake projects with Clang/LLVM.

The latest preview brings Clang into the fold. Visual Studio has had great tooling for MSVC and GCC for quite a while now. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 2 comes with support for Clang/LLVM out-of-the-box. For up-to-date documentation see Clang/LLVM support in Visual Studio projects.įor an overview of the Visual Studio capabilities described in this article, see Develop C and C++ applications.
