diff --git a/tools/versioner/src/Driver.cpp b/tools/versioner/src/Driver.cpp
index 1b631b6..a094818 100644
--- a/tools/versioner/src/Driver.cpp
+++ b/tools/versioner/src/Driver.cpp
@@ -100,11 +100,12 @@
   std::vector<std::string> cmd = { "versioner" };
   cmd.push_back("-std=c11");
   cmd.push_back("-x");
-  cmd.push_back("c-header");
+  cmd.push_back("c");
   cmd.push_back("-fsyntax-only");
 
   cmd.push_back("-Wall");
   cmd.push_back("-Wextra");
+  cmd.push_back("-Weverything");
   cmd.push_back("-Werror");
   cmd.push_back("-Wundef");
   cmd.push_back("-Wno-unused-macros");
@@ -134,7 +135,9 @@
     cmd.push_back(dir);
   }
 
+  cmd.push_back("-include");
   cmd.push_back(filename_placeholder);
+  cmd.push_back("-");
 
   auto diags = constructDiags();
   driver::Driver driver("versioner", llvm::sys::getDefaultTargetTriple(), *diags, vfs);
diff --git a/tools/versioner/src/versioner.cpp b/tools/versioner/src/versioner.cpp
index 735ea04..747c767 100644
--- a/tools/versioner/src/versioner.cpp
+++ b/tools/versioner/src/versioner.cpp
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <err.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
@@ -190,6 +191,21 @@
     }
   }
 
+  // Dup an empty file to stdin, so that we can use `clang -include a.h -` instead of `clang a.h`,
+  // since some warnings don't get generated in files that are compiled directly.
+  FILE* empty_file = tmpfile();
+  if (!empty_file) {
+    err(1, "failed to create temporary file");
+  }
+
+  int empty_file_fd = fileno(empty_file);
+  if (empty_file_fd == -1) {
+    errx(1, "fileno failed on tmpfile");
+  }
+
+  dup2(empty_file_fd, STDIN_FILENO);
+  fclose(empty_file);
+
   thread_count = std::min(thread_count, jobs.size());
 
   if (thread_count == 1) {