On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Hi,
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
I'm not sure how exactly, but perhaps it would solve some of the Boost.Build's headache (eg. particular PowerShell version required).
For example, it can
find all VS versions I've got installed (10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 14.0, 15.0):
vswhere.exe -legacy
find a particular version:
vswhere -legacy -version [11.0,12.0)
Yes, we are ware of that utility. As we advocated (or rather more like pestered) MS to write it. 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. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail