Re: [Boost-users] [boost] Clang on Windows - No Autolink?

On 7/22/2020 1:29 PM, Klaim - Joël Lamotte via Boost-users wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 00:50, Edward Diener via Boost-users mailto:boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On 7/21/2020 6:31 PM, Klaim - Joël Lamotte via Boost-users wrote: > Hi, > am I correct that autolinking is not supported by Boost when using Clang > on Windows? > To be clear, I'm talking about both clang++ and clang-cl drivers. > > The behavior I observe suggests that I am correct but looking at the > autolink.hpp header I didn't understand how it decides if it should work > or not.

Clang on Windows targeting vc++ supports autolink, clang on Windows targeting gcc doe3s not support autolink.

Thanks, though I think I already understood this if you are talking about Clang in general (outside the specific context of compiling Boost).

No, I am talking about clang within Boost.

My issue is in the context of using Boost: it seems that the autolink code in Boost is not working even if I use clang++ or clang-cl targeting Windows (using msvc's runtime, linker etc.). I suspect that this case is not allowed by the option macros that activate autolink on windows when msvc/cl is used. My suspicion comes from the fact that indeed clang does have autolink support in that situation, but it still doesn't find the libraries.

I didn't find documentation for that particular case, so I am looking for a confirmation that Boost does not support that case.

It should be working. What does your 'using clang-win' look like and what does your b2 command to invoke clang-win look like. I think you also must have the bin directory of your appropriate LLVM release in your Windows PATH so that the clang binaries can be found.