there is no task option for building the active file by clang/clang++ on windows?

[FischLu]

I am using windows and msys2 + clang, I would like to compile my cpp code by clang++ in vscode. However, there is only three options when I create tasks with following step:
press F1 -> input tasks: configure default build task
then the popup window has only three options without clang.

Of course I can select g++ and modify it to use clang, but if there is an option, that would be perfect. Is there a way I can create a custom task template by myself? Thank you

[sean-mcmanus]

Is your msys2 clang located in some default location? Is it at \msys64\mingw64\bin\? What's the exact compiler name? clang++.exe? We don't have msys + clang in our list of compilers to auto-detect, but we might be able to add it.

The workaround is to set your compilerPath to that msys2 clang -- that should cause it to be detected by our build task system.

[FischLu]

Thank you for the response. My clang locates in default location, more specifically "d:\msys64\mingw64\bin\clang.exe" and "d:\msys64\mingw64\bin\clang++.exe". The I have added "d:\msys64\mingw64\bin" into my environment PATH. After add clang path to compilerPath, I can select clang option now. Thank you.

[sean-mcmanus]

Thanks for the info. We've added the msys clang paths to our search paths for our next release (currently we only check for gcc/g++).

[sean-mcmanus]

msys clang paths should be auto-discovered at their default locations with https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/releases/tag/0.29.0-insiders2 .