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

Mon Mar 27 11:54:21 EDT 2017

I think there is a good patch that you could pull in at the moment:

https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-requests/425/enable-initial-visual-studio-2017-support/diff

I am personally needing to take a moment and add some new finders to Parts to deal with this.

I agree we can use the COM in python to deal with this.

Jason

From: Scons-users [mailto:scons-users-bounces at scons.org] On Behalf Of Bill Deegan
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Subject: Re: [Scons-users] how to configure scons for Visual Studio 2017 (RC)

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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

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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-to-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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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/production/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<mailto: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<file://Microsoft> Visual Studio\\2017\\Professional\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.10.24728\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe"'
CXX = '"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft<file://Microsoft> Visual Studio\\2017\\Professional\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.10.24728\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe"'
LINK = '"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft<file://Microsoft> Visual Studio\\2017\\Professional\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.10.24728\\bin\\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?

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SH

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