Re: [boost] [VS2017][release] vswhere.exe

On 28 March 2017 at 16:34, Rene Rivera via Boost wrote:

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost wrote:

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This is regarding issues with locating VS 2017 toolset(s). From CMake ml, I learned about vswhere utility being developed by Microsoft

https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere

vswhere.exe (390 KB) is downloadable from

https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/releases

Yes, we are ware of that utility. As we advocated (or rather more like pestered) MS to write it.

I see. I couldn't fish anything about from the list archives.

Unfortunately it didn't make it into the release itself. And at least because of license issues I'm not comfortable including it in the Boost tree, or install. Once Microsoft includes it as part of a VS release and installs it so that it is accessible in the PATH we will use it.

Makes sense. Thanks, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net