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Re:GCC 8.2 Released by ebikelaw on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:15PM (#17618596)
Bazel comes with an installer package that you click and run. I didn't find it that complicated. It comes out of the box with CROSSTOOL support for GCC, clang, and MSVC on Windows, among dozens of other toolchains.

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/tools/cpp/CR...

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Re:GCC 8.2 Released by HelloNurse on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:58PM (#17618937)
The official documentation at https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/windows.html says:

Build C++

To build C++ targets, you need:

•The Visual C++ compiler.

Whether the developers gave up on the Mingw64 GCC and Clang toolchains or it's a documentation mistake, this statement places Bazel support for Windows in the "don't touch with a 10' pole" category.

But my point was that adopting Bazel is obviously far more complex than adapting existing build scripts and build script generators for Make, Cmake, Ninja etc to use Clang.

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