[Scons-users] How do I identify the selected version of MSVC?

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Andrew,

On 13.03.2014 16:02, Andrew C. Morrow wrote:

>

> I can explicitly ask for a particular version of VC by setting 

> MSVC_VERSION. However, if I don't do that and let the tool just select 

> the default, then MSVC_VERSION does not appear to be updated to 

> reflect the actually selected version.

>

> Is there any way to determine by examining the Environment what 

> version of VC has been selected by the tooling subsystem?

>


if no MSVC_VERSION is set, this means that the default version gets 
selected. This happens in a separate function, which you can call yourself:

   import SCons.Tool.MSCommon as msc

   env = Environment()
   default_version = msc.vs.get_default_version(env)

Does this help?

Best regards,

Dirk