Does using Visual Studio Toolchain requires a VS licence ?

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Hi !

Is a VS license needed to use CLion to build a project with the VS toolchain ?

We have looked into using clang and MinGW, but some of our dependencies are not compatible with MinGW so it is not an option. So does building for windows mean we need both licenses for CLion AND VS ?

Cheers,

Stephane

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Anastasia Kazakova
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Regarding the VS toolchain, VS C++ compiler requires a license to be used. Doesn't mean if you install it along with the IDE or via Build Tools. CLion simply integrates with this compiler, we don't provide any licenses to it or some different access. So to use VS C++ compiler in CLion, you need licenses for both.

In general on Windows, in CLion you have the following options:

  • VS toolchain (with MSVC or Clang-cl)
  • MinGW/MinGW-w64
  • Cygwin
  • WSL toolchain with gcc or clang from WSL Ubuntu

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