mstorsjo wrote:

> > I don't think we should condone anything that assumes fetching WinSDK/MSVC 
> > derived files from a third party provider or github repo or anything like 
> > that.
> 
> I agree, but can we condone, or even redistribute, a script that 
> post-processes the files this way, so anyone can replicate this setup for 
> their personal use?

I don't see any legal issue wrt redistributing such a script, and it does 
indeed sound like a reasonable thing to have. So I don't mind us condoning such 
a tool.

> Looking at the linked github repo (which as you say may be violating a 
> license)

Indeed, this aspect is one of my main concerns here.

> > Perhaps one thing we could do is maybe relax that assumption, and see if we 
> > can shift some of the burden from users to the driver by having some form 
> > of case-insensitive lookup when we are targeting `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`?
> 
> I recall @compnerd asked for this at some point in the past, but perhaps he's 
> just adopted the `ciopfs` mount solution. Anyway, [my search didn't find an 
> existing 
> issue](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20case%20insensitive),
>  so I'll file a new one for that. ... Filed as issue #161400 .

Thanks; if we'd manage to solve that (plus something similar for the linker...) 
that would make things a fair bit simpler already.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/96417
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