Description
_this issue is split off from #3480 _
The LLVM project now supports an alternative clang executable called clang-cl. It does all the same stuff, but accepts command-line arguments in the Windows (cl.exe) style, rather than in the gcc style. It is intended to be a drop-in replacement for using the MSVC compiler, and doing so is a moderately supported option:
So possibly this is actually a feature request for a different clang tool, a Windows-native one; or that the existing clang tool learn about this alternative mode. Note Microsoft now considers this a valid configuration, not just something people bolt on, see for example this blog post.
SCons does not look for clang-cl when initializing the clang tool, nor will it know what to do with it if given as a tool name. Per discussion in #3480, this should be supported in a separate tool, thus this feature request.