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

[Bill Deegan]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Thomas Berg <merlin66b at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, I misunderstood, for a moment I thought win32com was part of vanilla
> python and didn't require anyithing else, but of course I already had
> pywin32 installed.
>

Yup.  We need/use that (until we migrate the logic to use ctypes), to set
up for parallel builds on windows.


>
> The javascript alternative has the advantage that it doesn't require the
> user to install anything, we can just launch a cscript.exe command (which
> is available in Windows) running a simple script, and we can parse the
> output from python. Do you have any good reasons for not trying this path?
> Not needing pywin32 seems very attractive to me.
>

For now pywin32 is needed for parallel builds.
But yes. Removing that requirement is desirable at some point.



>
> Not sure if a ctypes solution is any easier, or if it's doable at all.
>

It's doable, there's a ctypes only COM package available.

BTW.. similar thread ongoing on pull request :
https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-requests/425/enable-initial-visual-studio-2017-support/diff

Trying to move discussion here..

-Bill




>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Jason,
>>
>> there's no such registry entry for VS2017.
>> Not on my system, or according to the docs.
>>
>> If you can come up with a ctypes based install locater that'd be great.
>> Next best would be pywin32, but to be honest I'd like to drop that
>> requirement.
>> It doesn't install properly with most PY3 versions.. (there's an
>> outstanding bug the maintainer hasn't responded to with the installer
>> locating the py3 install location)
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Jason Kenny <dragon512 at live.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think there is a good patch that you could pull in at the moment:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-requests/425/enable-i
>>> nitial-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
>>> *Sent:* Monday, March 27, 2017 10:38 AM
>>> *To:* SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
>>> *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=FyPBSYWU
>>> A4mMsAPSptgv&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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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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