On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Glen Fernandes via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Mateusz wrote:
The utility is not deployed by any VS installer. You need to download it separately, from GitHub.
I hope that does not mean the Boost release itself would have to contain a Windows executable for the purpose of finding VS.
That is the general recommendation from Microsoft.
Maybe by the next release the problem that would need solving isn't "How to find VS on a user's machine" but instead "How to find vswhere.exe on a user's machine".
I wonder if the suggested solution[1] to that problem would also involve iterating through drive letters A through Z...
Haha.. Indeed.. I would only hope that they install it someplace in the PATH. But given the track record so far on this I guess that's a vain hope. One of the suggestions to Microsoft I made is that they should install it as an OS update https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere/issues/41. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail