c++ - What compiler is in Visual Studio 2015

Question

Can anyone tell me what compiler is built-in to Visual Studio 2015 for C++ projects? I tried it and tried older version compilers and it's giving me other compiling results. Is it GNU C++ version 4.8.2 or a newer version?

Answer 1

They have their own compiler that goes by Visual C++ _____

Here is a mapping of the IDE version to the compiler version. They generally release a major compiler version with each major IDE version.

Visual Studio 2005 - Visual C++ 8.0
Visual Studio 2008 - Visual C++ 9.0
Visual Studio 2010 - Visual C++ 10.0
Visual Studio 2012 - Visual C++ 11.0
Visual Studio 2013 - Visual C++ 12.0
Visual Studio 2015 - Visual C++ 14.0
Visual Studio 2017 - Visual C++ 14.1
Visual Studio 2019 - Visual C++ 14.2

So to explicitly answer your question, Visual Studio 2015 uses the compiler Visual C++ 14.0