Clang on Windows: It's a Thing
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Demonstrates that clang-cl and lld-link run as native Linux programs, producing PE32+ executables, COFF objects, and MSVC PDBs that match md5sums for build determinism, and those binaries debug in Visual Studio. Command-line is drop‑in compatible with cl.exe/link.exe switches (/Z7, /Debug:Full, Subsystem:Windows). Linking becomes an order of magnitude faster (Chrome links fall from ~5 minutes to ~30 seconds with LLD). Chrome is already shipping with this toolchain and Firefox follows.
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