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authorTanner Gooding <tagoo@outlook.com>2017-03-07 18:04:25 -0800
committerTanner Gooding <tagoo@outlook.com>2017-03-07 18:04:25 -0800
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Updating the various windows build scripts to have a comment explaining the VS version selection logic.
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@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ set __BuildType=Debug
set __BuildOS=Windows_NT
:: Default to highest Visual Studio version available
+::
+:: For VS2015 (and prior), only a single instance is allowed to be installed on a box
+:: and VS140COMNTOOLS is set as a global environment variable by the installer. This
+:: allows users to locate where the instance of VS2015 is installed.
+::
+:: For VS2017, multiple instances can be installed on the same box SxS and VS150COMNTOOLS
+:: is no longer set as a global environment variable and is instead only set if the user
+:: has launched the VS2017 Developer Command Prompt.
+::
+:: Following this logic, we will default to the VS2017 toolset if VS150COMNTOOLS tools is
+:: set, as this indicates the user is running from the VS2017 Developer Command Prompt and
+:: is already configured to use that toolset. Otherwise, we will fallback to using the VS2015
+:: toolset if it is installed. Finally, we will fail the script if no supported VS instance
+:: can be found.
if defined VS150COMNTOOLS (
set "__VSToolsRoot=%VS150COMNTOOLS%"
set "__VCToolsRoot=%VS150COMNTOOLS%\..\..\VC\Auxiliary\Build"