[Scons-users] Checking for specific versions of visual studio

[Brian Cody]

Bill,

It reports "9.0".

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Looks like SCons is only finding MSVC 11 and 11.0Exp installed on your
> system.
> Do you have MSVC 9.0 installed?
>
> What's the value of env['MSVC_VERSION'] after you initialize your
> environment?
>
> -Bill
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Brian Cody <brian.j.cody at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> Here's the file you requested. I never realized the option for it
>> existed! Thanks for that.
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/0pqdMYzv
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you run with:
>>>
>>> set SCONS_MSCOMMON_DEBUG=c:\somefile.log
>>> scons <whatever>
>>> and pastbin the log file?
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Brian Cody <brian.j.cody at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey guys, a while ago I asked about how exists() is used for tools and
>>>> I was told it pretty much isn't. We have an scons.workarounds we use to
>>>> get.. around things like this. Today it looks like this:
>>>>
>>>> _already_warned_about_tool = set()
>>>>
>>>> def does_tool_exist(env, tool):
>>>>     return SCons.Tool.Tool(tool, [str(SCons.Script.Dir(path)) for path
>>>> in env['toolpath']]).exists(env)
>>>>
>>>> def verify_tool_exists(env, tool):
>>>>     exists = does_tool_exist(env, tool)
>>>>     if not exists:
>>>>         if tool not in _already_warned_about_tool:
>>>>             _already_warned_about_tool.add(tool)
>>>>             sys.stderr.write('*** Tool "' + tool + '" does not exist;
>>>> targets skipped.\n')
>>>>             if env['fail_if_tools_are_unavailable']:
>>>>                 raise
>>>> SCons.Errors.BuildError(errstr='fail_if_tools_are_unavailable is enabled.')
>>>>     return exists
>>>>
>>>> This is used because we have some developers who don't have all tools
>>>> who still want to be able to "build all that I can". Now the issue we're
>>>> seeing is that we create an environment specifically for visual studio 9.0.
>>>> i.e.
>>>> Environment(tools = ['msvc', 'mslink', 'masm' , 'mslib'],
>>>> MSVC_VERSION='9.0', ......)
>>>>
>>>> With this environment, the above function will successfully tell you if
>>>> visual studio is installed or not, however it will return True even if the
>>>> version is 12.0. At the moment I'm not sure that we can go to 12 with our
>>>> version of the compact framework. Our easier solution would be that this
>>>> function should just return false. Deep in the bowels of the visual studio
>>>> support I see that the "msvc_exists" takes a version number, but the
>>>> exists() in the tool does not attempt to use it. In "msvs_exists" it does
>>>> not allow the same version check.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So my leading question: How am I supposed to offer this functionality?
>>>> If this is a half-implemented in SCons, any suggestion on how to solve this
>>>> generically from our standpoint without injecting changes into the SCons
>>>> package?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
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