Integrating 3rd party C++ compilers with Microsoft Visual Studio

Answer 1

IIRC, Leor Zolman's stlfilt used to provide a drop-in replacement for cl.exe. However, that behaved exactly like cl.exe did. I have seen threads referring to replacing the native cl.exe with one of a different compiler version, and it seems even that could be problematic.

The Windows version of Intel's compiler plugs into VS, though, and that's EDG-based, so you might try that. However, I don't think that's free on Windows.

Answer 2

You should be able to alter your .vcproj files to specify a different MSBuild task instead of cl.exe. You can find more information about this on the MSDN website, but it's perfectly possible to launch a third party tool.