Choosing which Visual Studio installation to use

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Adrian,

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi Thomas!
>
> On 02/14/2018 12:24 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>
>> On Windows, if one has multiple VS installations side by side, is it
>> possible to choose which Visual Studio installation to use?
>>
>
> From my slightly rusted memory regarding Visual Studio, isn't the regular
> way to choose a certain VS toolchain calling a batch script which sets
> the environment variables for the toolchain to be used.
>
> That is, when you open a command prompt and type "cl.exe" which usually
> end up with a "Bad command or filename" error as none of the command
> line utilities are normally set in $PATH.
>
>
Yes, that is normally the way - that or just starting the corresponding
"visual studio command prompt" shell. That is why I was specifying that I
am running from cygwin shell - the openjdk build somehow chooses that batch
script for you, and it would be nice to be able to choose with a configure
option.

..Thomas


> So, I would guess that you would use that method for OpenJDK as well?
>
> Adrian
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