diff --git a/clang/lib/ASTMatchers/Dynamic/CMakeLists.txt b/clang/lib/ASTMatchers/Dynamic/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/clang/lib/ASTMatchers/Dynamic/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/clang/lib/ASTMatchers/Dynamic/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,6 @@
   Support
 )
 
-# The registry source file ends up generating a lot of sections for each
-# matcher. Each matcher appears to get a vtable and several methods. Each
-# method needs .text, .pdata, .xdata, and .debug sections, adding to the
-# section multiplier. By default MSVC has a 2^16 limit on the number of
-# sections in an object file, and this needs more than that.
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(Registry.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
-
 add_clang_library(clangDynamicASTMatchers
   Diagnostics.cpp
   Marshallers.cpp
diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CMakeLists.txt b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -35,10 +35,6 @@
   set(codegen_deps)
 endif()
 
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(CodeGenModule.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
-
 add_clang_library(clangCodeGen
   BackendUtil.cpp
   CGAtomic.cpp
diff --git a/clang/lib/Sema/CMakeLists.txt b/clang/lib/Sema/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/clang/lib/Sema/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/clang/lib/Sema/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,6 @@
   Support
   )
 
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(SemaDeclAttr.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(SemaExpr.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(SemaExprCXX.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(SemaTemplate.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(SemaTemplateDeduction.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(SemaOpenMP.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
-
 clang_tablegen(OpenCLBuiltins.inc -gen-clang-opencl-builtins
   SOURCE OpenCLBuiltins.td
   TARGET ClangOpenCLBuiltinsImpl
diff --git a/clang/unittests/AST/CMakeLists.txt b/clang/unittests/AST/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/clang/unittests/AST/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/clang/unittests/AST/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
   Support
   )
 
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(ASTImporterTest.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
 
 add_clang_unittest(ASTTests
   ASTContextParentMapTest.cpp
diff --git a/clang/unittests/ASTMatchers/CMakeLists.txt b/clang/unittests/ASTMatchers/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/clang/unittests/ASTMatchers/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/clang/unittests/ASTMatchers/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,6 @@
   Support
   )
 
-# By default MSVC has a 2^16 limit on the number of sections in an object file,
-# and this needs more than that.
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(InternalASTMatchersTest.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(NodeMatchersTest.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(NarrowingMatchersTest.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(ASTTraversalMatchersTest.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
-
 add_clang_unittest(ASTMatchersTests
   ASTMatchersInternalTest.cpp
   ASTMatchersNodeTest.cpp
diff --git a/clang/unittests/Tooling/CMakeLists.txt b/clang/unittests/Tooling/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/clang/unittests/Tooling/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/clang/unittests/Tooling/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,14 +4,6 @@
   Support
   )
 
-# By default MSVC has a 2^16 limit on the number of sections in an object file,
-# and this needs more than that.
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(RecursiveASTVisitorTest.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(RecursiveASTVisitorTestExprVisitor.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(RecursiveASTVisitorTests/Callbacks.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-  set_source_files_properties(SourceCodeTest.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
 
 add_clang_unittest(ToolingTests
   ASTSelectionTest.cpp
diff --git a/lldb/source/API/CMakeLists.txt b/lldb/source/API/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/lldb/source/API/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lldb/source/API/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -126,9 +126,6 @@
   set_property(TARGET liblldb APPEND PROPERTY BUILD_RPATH   "${PYTHON_RPATH}")
 endif()
 
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(SBReproducer.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
 
 if(lldb_python_wrapper)
   add_dependencies(liblldb swig_wrapper)
diff --git a/llvm/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake b/llvm/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake
--- a/llvm/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake
+++ b/llvm/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake
@@ -468,6 +468,10 @@
       endif()
     endif()
   endif()
+  # By default MSVC has a 2^16 limit on the number of sections in an object file,
+  # but in many objects files need more than that. This flag is to increase the
+  # number of sections.
+  append("/bigobj" CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS)
 endif( MSVC )
 
 # Warnings-as-errors handling for GCC-compatible compilers:
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Passes/CMakeLists.txt b/llvm/lib/Passes/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/llvm/lib/Passes/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/llvm/lib/Passes/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(PassBuilder.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
-
 add_llvm_component_library(LLVMPasses
   PassBuilder.cpp
   PassPlugin.cpp
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SPIRV/CMakeLists.txt b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SPIRV/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/SPIRV/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/SPIRV/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-if (MSVC)
-  set_source_files_properties(SPIRVDialect.cpp PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS /bigobj)
-endif()
 
 set(LLVM_TARGET_DEFINITIONS SPIRVCanonicalization.td)
 mlir_tablegen(SPIRVCanonicalization.inc -gen-rewriters)