AMDG On 3/28/19 9:30 AM, Paul A. Bristow via Boost wrote:
<snip> I don't think that vswhere.exe is visible from my user or VS command prompts :-(
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But one copy is present at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer and
That's the right one.
With no parameters vswhere outputs this
C:\Users\Paul>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" Visual Studio Locator version 2.6.7+91f4c1d09e [query version 2.0.2250.60958] Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
instanceId: bd686eb9 installDate: 10Dec2018 16:18:55 installationName: VisualStudio/15.9.10+28307.557 installationPath: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional installationVersion: 15.9.28307.557 <snip>
I'm installing some other Visual Studio items to see if that will help.
I conclude that you are correct but what is wrong with my install is as yet unclear to me.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/setup/vswhere-is-now-installed-with-visual-st...
dated in 2017 suggests that vswhere.exe should have been present using VS2017.
Do I just need vswhere.exe in my path?
That won't affect Boost.Build. msvc.jam knows where to find vswhere. In Christ, Steven Watanabe