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Building Node.js on Windows with Clang-cl
Recently Node.js started to support building with clang-cl on Windows. I happened to have the chance to try it out this week and while it still needs some fixups in my case, it’s mostly working very w
At some point V8 followed Chromium and switched fully to clang-cl on all platforms, including Windows, while accepting patches from embedders like Node.js to make it at least buildable with MSVC. Thanks to the collaboration among contributors including Michaël Zasso, Stefan Stojanovic and Daniel Lemire et al., the clang-cl build of Node.js started to take shape in late 2024 and was added to the Node.js pull request CI. This week I happened to be helping out with the V8 13.3 upgrade in Node.js, which ran into a compilation error with clang-cl in the CI, among other issues.
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