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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 |
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settings of your installed version of Visual Studio. The only way to |
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get this information is to run Meson under the Visual Studio Command |
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Prompt. |
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You can always find the Visual Studio Command Prompt by searching from |
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the Start Menu. However, the name is different for each Visual Studio |
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version. With Visual Studio 2019, look for "x64 Native Tools Command |
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Prompt for VS 2019". The next steps are [the same as |
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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 |
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vs`. At the time of writing the Ninja backend is more mature than the |
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VS backend so 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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