Working at Microsoft (2004)

Re:Working at Microsoft (2004) by rwallace on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:56PM (#9708806)

At the moment I'm looking at trying to compile some stuff on Windows, that has Visual Studio project files, with clang instead of Microsoft C++. This would involve making msbuild do things it wasn't exactly designed to do (assuming I don't want to spend a lot of time duplicating what it does from scratch). It occurred to me maybe what I really need to do is modify msbuild, but of course that's out of the question, right? But just for the heck of it I ran a Google search...

... and msbuild was recently open sourced. The code is right there on Github.

Yeah, Microsoft of 2015 is very different from Microsoft of 1995, in good ways.

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Re:Working at Microsoft (2004) by com2kid on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:06AM (#9710171)

You actually can extend out MSBuild to use alternative compilers.

It already comes with rules for C#, VB, C++, F#, etc. Replacing the rules for C++ with another command line and set of parameters of quite doable! :)

(I happen to be using such a build system, unfortunately I wasn't the one who wrote it so I cannot provide any direct help, just encouragement!)

It can actually all work from within VS as well.

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