Use llvm instead of MSVC

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How can I use the llvm instead of the MSVC toolchain?
If so what toolchains and targets do I need to install.

Thank you in advance.

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The Rust compiler uses the LLVM backend on every toolchains. But you need the Microsoft Visual C++ toolchain and included linker and system libraries to run Microsoft Windows native binaries. You can relies on some abstraction layer which does relies on the MSVC toolchain underneath, like pc-windows-gnu toolchain.

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Can I use the llvm linker to build the binaries?

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Have a look at this issue against the Rust repo, it's about using LLVM's linker (lld) for linking.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39915#issuecomment-618726211

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