[Scons-users] how to configure scons for Visual Studio 2017 (RC)

Mon Mar 27 11:55:38 EDT 2017

I'm not very familiar with COM, but know roughly what it is. I didn't know
you could call into it with plain python. As long as win32com is a built in
python module, I agree this may be the way to go.

I can have a go at some plain python code to retrieve the needed
information later today, and we can take it from there.

- Thomas

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> I think we can query the COM object via plain python and skip helpers.
> Are you familiar with COM at all?
> I'm still working on py2/3 porting issues, so any help would be great.
>
> Here's some doc on python and COM.
> https://books.google.com/books?id=ns1WMyLVnRMC&pg=
> PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=python+microsoft+automation+objects&
> source=bl&ots=NVoi1KaePn&sig=U7PW8ttWlZumpqiLrzWSBL8IxSU&
> hl=en&ei=FyPBSYWUA4mMsAPSptgv&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#
> v=onepage&q=python%20microsoft%20automation%20objects&f=false
>
> -Bill
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Thomas Berg <merlin66b at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This link shows an interesting way of finding Visual Studio:
>> https://github.com/node4good/windows-autoconf
>>
>> I found it in a comment here:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41106407/programmatically
>> -finding-the-vs2017-installation-directory
>>
>> If I understood correctly, all that is required is to execute some
>> javascript code using the built in Windows tool cscript.exe. This has the
>> advantage that you don't need to call .net / COM objects, it only depends
>> on native Windows tools. Perhaps this method could be used by scons too?
>>
>> Here is the source code of a Microsoft single executable utility which
>> locates Visual Studio, which is probably less desirable for scons:
>> https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
>>
>> Visual Studio 2017 does have a vcvarsall.bat. After running
>> "vcvarsall.bat x64", this is the environment:
>> https://pastebin.com/Em3CxNpq
>>
>> Anything else I could do to help?
>>
>> - Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is there a vcvarsall.bat in VS 2017?
>>> A pastebin of the exact output would be helpful..
>>>
>>> Looks like microsoft "improved" things.  So now you can have multiple
>>> installs of VS2017, but they don't add to registry.
>>> They have a package you can install and then you can call their API from
>>> C#,C++ to find the locations.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what genius thought this was a reasonable solution to tools
>>> which need to find VS's installation location.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Steffen Herbort <
>>> steffen.herbort at ar-tracking.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried solving it by defining the „vcvarsall.bat“. However it then
>>>> says that the „wmic“ command is not known (I’m using Win7).
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any idea how to solve that?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Steffen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Von:* Scons-users [mailto:scons-users-bounces at scons.org] *Im Auftrag
>>>> von *Bill Deegan
>>>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 13. Januar 2017 18:53
>>>> *An:* SCons users mailing list
>>>> *Betreff:* Re: [Scons-users] how to configure scons for Visual Studio
>>>> 2017 (RC)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ARg.. MS changed Visual studio/VC install and no longer writes to the
>>>> registry for 2017..
>>>>
>>>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2016/09/15/changes-t
>>>> o-visual-studio-15-setup/
>>>>
>>>> I'll see what can be reasonably done.
>>>>
>>>> -Bill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Bill Deegan <
>>>> bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Of course if you make local changes that work.. pull requests with the
>>>> fix would be most welcome..
>>>>
>>>> -Bill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Steffen Herbort <
>>>> steffen.herbort at ar-tracking.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'll try the registry keys!
>>>>
>>>> I'm using SCons 2.5.1...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 12. Januar 2017 17:29:48 MEZ schrieb Bill Deegan <
>>>> bill at baddogconsulting.com>:
>>>>
>>>> MSVC initialization searches the registry for the versions of MSVC
>>>> SCons knows about.
>>>>
>>>> Since this is a new version it likely requires some updates with
>>>> information on where the install information is stored in the registry.
>>>>
>>>> If you look at SCons/Tool/MSCommon/vc.py (and vs.py)  you'll see a list
>>>> of registry locations.
>>>>
>>>> If you can look at the registry on your machine and get us the
>>>> appropriate paths I can probably put together an updated file for you to
>>>> try out
>>>>
>>>> (and make the change in the devel tree).
>>>>
>>>> You could also try setting:
>>>>
>>>> MSVC_USE_SCRIPT (See manpage: http://scons.org/doc/productio
>>>> n/HTML/scons-man.html)
>>>>
>>>> Which version of SCons are you running?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Bill
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Steffen Herbort <
>>>> steffen.herbort at ar-tracking.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> HI!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to get scons configured to use a VS2017RC environment for my
>>>> build.
>>>>
>>>> It works in the VS2017 command prompt when I define the compiler and
>>>> linker manually:
>>>>
>>>> CC = '"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual
>>>> Studio\\2017\\Professional\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.10.24728\\bi
>>>> n\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe"'
>>>>
>>>> CXX = '"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual
>>>> Studio\\2017\\Professional\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.10.24728\\bi
>>>> n\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe"'
>>>>
>>>> LINK = '"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual
>>>> Studio\\2017\\Professional\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.10.24728\\bi
>>>> n\\HostX86\\x86\\link.exe"'
>>>>
>>>> But this does *not* work in the basic command promt.
>>>>
>>>> 1) Do you have a working configuration for the standard windows command
>>>> prompt?
>>>>
>>>> 2) It seems that scons can't find the basic include files, since I get
>>>> the following error:
>>>>
>>>> fatal error C1083: File (Include) can't be opened: "stdio.h": No such
>>>> file or directory
>>>>
>>>> Where do I specify those includes?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> SH
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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