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Clang on Windows is powerful, but it relies on the Windows SDK and the MSVC standard library. It doesn't have its own standard library implementation by default on Windows (usually). It was looking for libcmt.lib and failing.

Clang is a C, C++, and Objective-C compiler front-end built on the LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) framework. Originally dominant on UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS), Clang has matured significantly on the Windows platform. It now offers a robust alternative to Microsoft’s traditional C/C++ compiler (MSVC), providing advantages such as faster compile times, clearer diagnostic messages, and cross-platform consistency.

: It uses the same flags as MSVC and links against the standard Windows libraries.

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