[Scons-users] MSVC 14.2 (Visual Studio 2019) detected as 14.1

[Bill Deegan]

Just added an issue to track it:
https://github.com/SCons/scons/issues/3346

-Bill

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 11:54 AM Leonard de Ruijter Development <
dev at systeemdenker.nl> wrote:

> Hello Bill,
>
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. Good to see that you're aware of the issue. I
> was not aware of that, as there doesn't seem to be an issue on github for
> it.
>
>
> I also thank you for your work on SCons, as it's a build system I
> generally like.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Leonard
> On 10-4-2019 20:30, Bill Deegan wrote:
>
> Leonard,
>
> We're aware of the issue.
> We're working on VS2019 support. (Currently not supported)
> Hopefully have something before too long.
>
> As far as adding support "properly".. It's open source.
> If you check the release notes you'll see NO indication that VS 2019 is
> supported as yet.
>
> If you'd like to send a pull request with a fix, that's always welcome.
>
> -Bill
> P.S. Thank you or working on such a project. My mother-in-law is legally
> blind and working with her on the computer has made me acutely aware of how
> challenging it is for her.
> P.P.S See that's how you thank open source developers for their time and
> effort.. ;)
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:35 AM Leonard de Ruijter Development <
> dev at systeemdenker.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> For NVDA, a screen reader for the visually impaired, we're using SCons as
>> build system. In our sconstruct file, we enforce the use of Visual Studio
>> 2017, like this:
>>
>>
>> if not env.get('MSVC_VERSION')=='14.1':
>>     raise RuntimeError("Visual C++ 14.1 (Visual Studio 2017) not found")
>>
>>
>> With Visual Studio 2019 however, I noticed that the build still ran.
>> After investigation, I noticed that the MSVC_VERSION variable was set to
>> 14.1.
>>
>>
>> I also tried the following:
>>
>>
>> >>> from SCons.Tool.MSCommon.vc import find_vc_pdir
>> >>> find_vc_pdir("14.1")
>> u'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\VC'
>> >>> find_vc_pdir("14.2")
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File
>> "D:\Development\nvda\include\scons\src\engine\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py",
>> line 338, in find_vc_pdir
>>     raise UnsupportedVersion("Unknown version %s" % msvc_version)
>> UnsupportedVersion: Unknown version 14.2
>>
>> This is with Python 2.7.16 with SCons master.
>>
>> It would be great if VC14.2 support could be added properly.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Leonard de Ruijter
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