Explicitly enable exception support for clang-cl (fixes #90)#91
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Explicitly enable exception support for clang-cl (fixes #90)#91
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MSVC requires that exceptions are explicitly enabled using the `\EH` flag, so clang-cl copies that behavior. When CMake targets the Windows-MSVC platform (that is when using "Visual Studio" generator), CMake takes care of adding `\EHsc` to `CXXFLAGS`. However when the clang-cl compiler is specified manually (`CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER`) and another generator, like Ninja is used, then CMake ends up targeting the Windows-Clang-CXX platform, which does not enable exceptions, so we have to do that ourselves. To keep the code simple, we do not try to detect the target platform or such, we simply append the `\EHsc` flag when we detect clang-cl.
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MSVC requires that exceptions are explicitly enabled using the
\EHflag, so clang-cl copies that behavior. When CMake targets the
Windows-MSVC platform (that is when using "Visual Studio" generator),
CMake takes care of adding
\EHsctoCXXFLAGS. However when theclang-cl compiler is specified manually (
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER) andanother generator, like Ninja is used, then CMake ends up targeting
the Windows-Clang-CXX platform, which does not enable exceptions,
so we have to do that ourselves. To keep the code simple, we do not
try to detect the target platform or such, we simply append the
\EHscflag when we detect clang-cl.