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short-description: How to use meson in Visual Studio
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# Using with Visual Studio
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In order to generate Visual Studio projects, Meson needs to know the settings
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of your installed version of Visual Studio. The only way to get this
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information is to run Meson under the Visual Studio Command Prompt.
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You can always find the Visual Studio Command Prompt by searching from the
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Start Menu. However, the name is different for each Visual Studio version. With
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Visual Studio 2019, look for "x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019".
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The next steps are [the same as always](https://mesonbuild.com/Running-Meson.html#configuring-the-build-directory):
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1. `cd` into your source directory
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1. `meson setup builddir`, which will create and setup the build directory
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1. `meson compile -C builddir`, to compile your code. You can also use `ninja -C builddir` here if you are using the default Ninja backend.
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If you wish to generate Visual Studio project files, pass `--backend vs`.
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At the time of writing the Ninja backend is more mature than the VS backend so
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you might want to use it for serious work.
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# Using Clang-CL with Visual Studio
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*(new in 0.52.0)*
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You will first need to get a copy of llvm+clang for Windows, such versions
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are available from a number of sources, including the llvm website. Then you
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will need the [llvm toolset extension for visual
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studio](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LLVMExtensions.llvm-toolchain).
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You then need to either use a [native file](Native-environments.md#binaries)
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or `set CC=clang-cl`, and `set CXX=clang-cl` to use those compilers, meson
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will do the rest.
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This only works with visual studio 2017 and 2019.
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There is currently no support in meson for clang/c2.
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# Using Intel-CL (ICL) with Visual Studio
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*(new in 0.52.0)*
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To use ICL you need only have ICL installed and launch an ICL development
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shell like you would for the ninja backend and meson will take care of it.
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